COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

If you have ever read gothic short stories like “A Rose for Emily” or “The Fall of the House of Usher” you will be able to contemplate the adversities and twists of such literature. Each with its exquisite tang of lust and sorrow raise the reader with tension while anticipating for more to be given away. Even though both short stories are great in context and show much of similarity in their romanticism styles; they reveal much difference. The points of comparison and differing are followed by many categories, but “A Rose for Emily” as well as “The Fall of the House of Usher” in their structure of time, form and realistic termination are diverse, yet similar in their main points followed by the Era which influenced the author to write.

The structures of both short stories are very different. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is fluent with time, in other words, it takes you step by step towards the conclusion, giving you the exact point of how everything happened before the end. On the other hand, “A Rose for Emily” jumps from time to time, losing the reader if he or she does not understand or follow the laps of period. Unlike “A Rose for Emily”, though still with sufficient explanation, the context of “The Fall of the House of Usher” has lots of description and emphasizes each event with words to fill every aspect being designated. However, not only does “The Fall of the House of Usher” have more details but it also has a higher quality in vocabulary and poetic standard.

Both arts of literature were created by authors whom were influenced by the Romantic Era. Similarly, each is formulated with a situation which leaves the reader lingering with the mystery left behind, withdrawing the intention of a solution. Throughout “The Fall of the House of Usher” the text is developed with grief, mischief, and agony; the negative atmosphere affirms the insanity of the characters behaviors and those objects that make up the society, place or time of being, just as “A Rose for Emily”. Ever the more, each context is set up in its most enthusiastic forms; the author provides enough structure, each in its own way, reasoning the best way to end with the mysterious itch of sorrow.

Despite “The Fall of the House of Usher” is more descriptive “A Rose for Emily” is comprehensive, which means the details are farther specific than in the opposing story. As well, in realistic terms “A Rose for Emily”, with its story of a domineering woman whom couldn’t live without the man she chose to love and in response of his opposition decided to abduct him, further more murder or die beside the man, is probable of occurring, unlike the superstition lead amongst “The Fall of the House of Usher”. I don’t believe Madeline, would have come out of the casket, better yet the dunjeon, alive; the superstitious story is just not likely to occur. In “A Rose for Emily” you somewhat see how society operated in those times unlike “ The Fall of the House of Usher” which only enrolls in one determined area, the sad mischievous mist of the Usher residence. All depending in the reader’s perspective and what types of stories one likes to read will there be a determination of the best story, but those who enjoy a more likely termination will prefer “A Rose for Emily”. 

To conclude, these styles of writing in “A Rose for Emily” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” have their diverse and similar aspects all lain upon the author’s points of strategy. Similarly, those twists of suppression are thrown against the formulation of the Era of which each author enhanced their writing techniques. Each with distinct and comparable ways, both stories lead upon an unfolded mystery. At the end, the unidentified secrets leave you in suspense.