A Rose for Emily

"A Rose for Emily" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find" exemplify the Southern Gothic genre through their dark themes, eccentric characters, and Southern settings. Faulkner's story features macabre...

In "A Rose for Emily" and "The Yellow Wallpaper," both stories have female protagonists who are trapped in their environments. This makes them lose their sanity.

Both the lives of Emily of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Joyce's "Eveline" have been stultified by the rigid patriarchs who dominate their families. In Joyce's story, for instance, the...

Both "The Tell-tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner explore themes of madness and death. "The Tell-tale Heart" focuses on guilt and paranoia through the...

Both "A Rose for Emily" and "The Story of an Hour" explore themes of female repression and the longing for freedom. Narratively, both stories focus on the lives of women trapped by societal...

"A Rose for Emily" and "Porphyria's Lover" both explore themes of fear of abandonment and possessive love. Emily Grierson and the narrator each kill their lovers—Homer Barron and Porphyria—to prevent...

Both Emily Grierson and Richard Cory are tragic figures who appear to live enviable lives but are ultimately isolated and misunderstood by their communities. Emily, from "A Rose for Emily," becomes...

"Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily" both explore themes of clannish loyalty, Southern Gothic elements, and social isolation. Characters in both stories exhibit deviant behaviors and adhere to...

"A Rose for Emily" and "A Hunger Artist" share similar literary elements, such as a bygone era and protagonists at odds with societal changes. However, they contrast in structure and themes. "A Rose...

The main similarity between the two stories is that the women are victims of the patriarchal society in which they live. Both stories deal with the reputations of women and how the patriarchy...