"A Rose for Emily"and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are stories placed in very creepy settings with strange situations. Both settings appeared to be fancy and luxurious in the past but now they don't look that way anymore. These places represent the mood, the atmosphere, and the characters of the story. Undoubtedly, two characters that represent those strange settings are Emily and Madeline.
Emily (A Rose for Emily) was a thirty-something small, fat woman described as motionless. We might think of her as weak, or as unwilling to take a stand against her father in life. She was an only child controlled by her father her whole life. He separated her from the rest of the town when he was alive, going as far as to make sure she didn't have any lovers or a husband. After his death, she tried desperately to pursue her desires for love and sex but failed miserably. Her father set her up for a way of life that was impossible for her to escape, until her death.
On the other hand, Madeline (The Fall of the House of Usher) maybe doesn't fully exist from the start. This would explain why the narrator rarely sees her and why she doesn't interact with him. Madeline and her brother Roderick could be two halves of the same person. If it's that way, she would represent Roderick's worst fears. When the two halves came down, the house, also divided with a crack, came down too.
Both women seem to be difficult to understand. Each on of them has her own issues presented in different ways. Emily looked as a weak and desperate woman who died trapped in the life her father had made for her. Madeline represented the unknown and was trapped until she died too, but she came back for revenge.
Both authors achieved their purpose. With characters like these two women you could feel right there in the story. They transmitted the ideal mood and atmosphere with characters like these. You could feel their weakness, their strength, letting you see their similarities and differences.
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