Quarantine short stories

So last week I had my juniors read “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “A Rose for Emily.” Both of these short stories relate to this quarantine that we are going through. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the unreliable narrator is going thorough a mental break where she is basically locked in a room with ugly, old, yellow wallpaper. It drives her insane. Literally. She starts thinking she can see a woman in the pattern and that woman is trying to escape from the wallpaper. So the narrator helps the woman escape by pulling down the wallpaper. She even gets a rope to tie around the woman, and a chair to stand on. This suggests suicide even though it is not specifically stated. She eventually frees the woman from the wallpaper, in turn freeing herself. In “A Rose for Emily,” Emily Grierson is a recluse and stays inside her home. Her father dies and over time, she continues to seclude herself. She refuses to conform to the new times. She meets a northern man who is there for a job. She is afraid he is going to leave her too, so she poisons him with arsenic and sleeps beside his dead body for forty years. Both of these ties into the quarantine because 1. We are having to stay in our homes, driving us crazy. 2. Staying locked up in one place for too long is it good on your mental health. This coming week I’m going to have my juniors write about these stories and how they connect with the quarantine. I want to see the connections they can make. I’m so excited to read their inferences.