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In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, we are presented with two women in rebelling against their communities. Though they differ in past treatment and general outlook towards life in a small town, the ways these two stubborn women relate to their communities are alike in their objection to what town expects of them. Faulkner’s Emily Grierson is a "monument" of Southern gentility, an ideal of past …

…rules of conduct even though she always showed them that their rules meant nothing to her. Tessie was used to the safety that a small town offers. The shock that she encounters when it is her turn to be on winning end is a crushing blow. Tessie Hutchinson screams, "It isn't fair. It isn't right," just before she is killed. It could be said that this statement rings true for the treatment of both women.