The characters of both Miss Emily Grierson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s are forced into solitude by societal conventions. William Faulkner describes Miss Emily as a proud woman that was from a family that was well-know at one time. Her father is the person that she looked up. He was also the one who headed her down the path that lead to murder. He was an extremely overprotective man who controlled her. He thought that no young man is good enough for her daughter, keeping her away from society facing down the r

In both stories the men, in the main characters lives, played the role in driving the women to lunacy. Emily Griesan was sheltered from the outside world and denied a chance to establish a life, get married and raise a family; her father believed “none of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily.” In an unfortunate twist she falls for a man Hower Baron who “liked men” and “was not a marrying man”. After being a victim of loneliness for so many years she decides to get her man. She orders Homer a toiletry set engraved with his initials, a suit, and a nightshirt, she also buys the arsenic that will make him hers forever. It was "as if that quality to her father which had thwarted her woman's life so many times had been virulent and furious to die". These twisted events seem to make her feel more alive and less lonely, sounds a little crazy for a sane person.

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the main character Charlotte Perkins Gilman was driven to lunacy down a lonely road as well. In this story charlotte was denied a career and was sheltered from society by a controlling husband. He controlled all aspects of her life including what room she would stay in and who she sees. Charlotte being an artist is a creative person and being stuck in th

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