Monday, July 27, 2009
3 Stories
In these three stories there are many crazy women. In a Rose for Emily she is grotesque but only really to the reader. No one else can see that she is crazy and what she has done until the end. They all see her as the southern belle and highly recognized. There is also the classic creepy houses we have seen in all the stories we have read. What would a gothic be with out one. All the stories also had women struggling against authority and mainly male dominance. This may have been an image of womens struggle in society at the time. To this day there are glass ceilings where women and minorities could not go any higher at some point. Back then the glass ceiling was male dominance or their husbands. Women lived through the male decisions.
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It is interesting to see the different way in which the authors use the crazy female character to achieve their message. The women who were perceived to be crazy were also the ones struggling with authority. In "A Rose For Emily" Emily is resisting change and authority. In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" the grandmother has a problem with authority but yet she still needed to grow. In "Yellow Wallpaper" the narrator is crazy and acutally believes she becomes part of the wall. It was interesting to see the connection with these stories and yet they were all so very different.
ReplyDeleteI also wrote about how the stories shared a common theme of psychological "offness," I believe each woman is crazy in her own way, but the narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" definitely takes the cake.
ReplyDeleteI found it funny how emily had an attitude that she was better than everybody when the fact remains that she was just as crazy as they come. I thought the woman in The Yellow Wallpaper was crazy the same as Noelle did , but I think Emily was slightly crazier. I mean she slept with a dead body! Thats just nasty.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the town's people, though they sympathize with her at times find her grotesque. If not grotesque, they simply shrouded in mystery. Emily did fight against male authority. In a very round about way but that is the basic theme of the novel, I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteIn "A Rose for Emily", we do not know that Emily is crazy till the last chapter of the story. It is not until Emily died that they found out she is the murderer. The room with the corpse and Emily grey hair next to the corpse fully fulfill the gothic element with creepiness.
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