Compare the two female protagonists in A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner (Emily), and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (the wife)?

Faulkner describes Emily Grierson as a fallen monument
when dead, and a  tradition, a duty, and a care or hereditary responsibility for the
town when she was alive. Emily represents the old gentile ladies of a South that no
longer exists. She had been soft and kind and demure, all reasons why her father's
absolute control over her life made sense.Emily is considered eccentric at
best.

Gilman's narrator/wife claims herself to be ordinary
(financially) and emotionally or physically sick. Her husband does not agree with
her.

Both women are emotionally unstable. Emily is driven
to lunacy by a controlling father and father-figures. Gilman's narrator is driven to
lunacy by a controlling husband and other prominent figures in her life such as doctors.
Both women represent a lack of female autonomy in respectable society and the sciences.
Neither woman is allowed to make decisions for herself or her well-being, and both are
driven mad by the very people and situations that control them under the guise that it
will keep them sane and respectable.