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A Rose For Emily And The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

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In the beginning of time, women were treated like second class citizens. Women were repressed because of the problems they had to face created by society. Women were controlled by their husbands or men in their lives and couldn’t have their freedom. In both stories, “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin and “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, the main characters are women that are controlled by men and long to be free. Mrs. Mallard in "The Story of an Hour" and Emily Grierson in "A Rose for Emily" have been shaped physically and mentally by the men they live with. How each of the women react during the stories, it links to how they felt about their male partner and how they dealt with their deaths. With regard to these short stories,
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