Compare and Contrast the Tell Tale Heart to the Yellow Wallpaper

      

The stories, The Yellow Wallpaper and The Tell Tale Heart, are alike and different in many ways. For example, both of these stories are Gothic Lit. Another example of a  difference between the two stories are that in the T.Y.W. the narrator takes a deep plunge into madness and the narrator in T.T.T.H.  keeps on saying he is completely sane. In the Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator tears up the floorboard while the narrator in the Tell Tale Heart tears up floorboard to hide the body of whom he had just killed. To compare the authors, Poe was driven to be insane by the people in his time because of his writings while Gilman was driven to madness during the rest cure that was prescribed by Dr. Wier  Mitchell. Both Poe and Gilman had spouses that died. Both stories have a narrator that at times can seem a bit untrustworthy. One common difference between the two is that each narrator is of the opposite sex. Each stories constants both the same elements that a classic dark story would. Both stories have a person dying (or if you see it that way). A difference between the stories is that one tells the story of an unnamed narrator who is fighting to keep his sanity while the other one is about a named narrator who writes a story of how woman were during their time and how their own health was. One story was written to show people the truth about how woman were treated while the other one was written just for personal enjoyment.