Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses The Story of an Hour by Chopin, and A Rose for Emily by Faulkner.Short stories written during the 1800s reveal a society in which women were tightly controll

Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses The Story of an Hour by Chopin, and A Rose for Emily by Faulkner.

Short stories written during the 1800s reveal a society in which women were tightly controlled within the house. A close examination of the main characters in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” illustrates the weight of social constraints on women during this period in time. Both Faulkner's Emily Grierson and Chopin's Louise Mallard are women trapped by social convention. Faulkner paints a picture of Miss Emily Grierson as a woman strictly contained within the boundaries of her father’s home and his old Southern ideals. “None of the young men were quite good enough to Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau. Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door” (437). Similarly, Chopin's Louise Mallard is only seen within her home, first hearing about her husband's death in the living room and then retiring alone to her room. Because of the description of her weak heart and other considerations, it is presumed that Louise is elderly, but Chopin describes her as “young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength” (Chopin). She has become so resigned to the social cage of her home and marriage that the effects were present on her face and in her health.