While there are many themes in all of these stories, it seems the portrayal of women is very prominent. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator is portrayed as crazy and her husband especially views her as that. The women trapped in the wallpaper is a symbol for females trapped in a male-dominated society. The narrator is trapped just like the women in the wallpaper and even though she doesn't feel like anything is wrong, her husband tries to convince her how sick she is. He is almost making her crazy on purpose it seems.
In A rose for Emily, we don't find out many things until the very end of the story. Emily is portrayed as beautiful and had a very close relationship with her father. When her father dies, she had difficulty letting go and accepting it. We see this another time when Homer dies. In fact, Emily keeps his body in the bed and sleeps next to him still. The townspeople all view her as this crazy lady who won't pay her taxes. It seems the author is portraying a female character who was once beautiful but went crazy through her attachment to men, and by going crazy, her looks faded and she became fat and ugly.
In A Good Man is Hard to Find, the grandmother is the protagonist and again we don't find out a lot about her until the end. While reading the story, I was almost annoyed with her ignorance, especially when she shouted out that the mysterious man was the misfit. The entire story the grandmother is potrayed as the perfect Christian, at least superficially. However, it isn't until the Misfit starts to question her beliefs that she really has an epiphany. That is why she reached out to him and called him one of her sons.
The women in all three stories are portrayed as dark, mysterious, and many of them suffered from psychological disorders, whether proclaimed by male characters or not.
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