The role of chronology in Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Faulkner's A Rose for EmilyChronology is the sequence of time as it occurs in the events. The timeline of a story is important for the reader to understand the literary work. Many stories, such as "The Yellow Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feature chronological events that occur in sequence, in the order of when they happened. Other stories, like "A Rose for Emily" written by William Faulkner, have complicated timelines. Faulkner uses “a complex and disjunctive temporal scheme that distorts chronology almost beyond recognition” (Qtd. in Moore). Its story begins with an event occurring in the present, regresses to an earlier event, and finally returns to the initial event. This sometimes confuses the reader. Although "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "A Rose for Emily" have different timelines, the timeline of each story affects how the reader is able to understand the work as well as the order in which the events occurred . Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" has a simple basis and timeline that tells a story in an orderly timeline. The protagonist Jane, also the narrator, tells the story in the present tense, as it happens to her. The story is the “account of a woman’s gradual descent into madness” (Bak 1). It begins with the narrator telling the reader “it is very rare that simple ordinary people like John and myself get ancestral halls for the summer” (Gilman 13). Jane and her husband rent the summer house for Jane to rest and recover from a slight depression. Jane is isolated in a nursery upstairs in a colonial mansion five kilometers from the village (Bak 1). As the story progresses, the reader can see what Jane goes through when she is isolated in the house. The next example of time that Jane mentions in the story is the passage of July 4 (Gilman 17). As time progresses to the end of summer, the reader can see how time spent at home has deteriorated Jane's condition. The story ends in a mystery, but the reader is allowed to see how the story unfolded in ordered chronological time, making the story less confusing..