Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper And Tell-Tale Heart

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The two stories that I liked the most out of the short stories we have read so far and that I found have many things in common are, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the "Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe. Both stories do not have similar themes, but their character development is very closely related. In Poe's work, the main character is a man and in Gilman's work, the character is a woman, but both characters are clearly dealing with something mentally. The women in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is dealing with some sort of mental illness the throughout the whole story. She is seeing women inside the wallpaper. In the "Tell Tale Heart", the man is also dealing with a mental illness, that we as the readers are also unaware

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