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William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" hold several similarities and differences. Both stories focus on a woman’s troubles near the turn of the 19th century. This era is especially interesting because it is a time in modern society when women were still treated as second class citizens. William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" show the influences of society on the woman who is the main character in each story, very different settings, and similar symbolism and themes. In the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Gilman, the setting is a colonial mansion. The narrator likes the house and thinks it is a good place to recover from her nervous condition. Her husband confines her to a bedroom so that her health will improve. She does not like this room. The bedroom she is confined to use to be a nursery, playroom, and gymnasium. The narrator's nervous condition becomes worse to the point of insanity due to her isolation in the bedroom, which is covered with ugly, yellow wallpaper. The narrator spends most of her time in this room, which makes her becomes fixated with the wallpaper's patterns. She begins to imagine a