"A Rose for Emily" is an interesting macabre tale written by William Faulkner. This story is set in Faulkner's fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, in Yoknapatawpha County. “Young Goodman Brown” is a fascinating short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This story is set in the 17th century and is about Puritan beliefs. In “A Rose for Emily,” Emily's house is a commemoration of the only remaining emblem of the dying world of Southern aristocracy. The exterior of his large, square-framed house is richly decorated. The domes, spiers and scrolled balconies represent the decadent architectural style of the 1870s. By the time the story takes place, a lot has changed. In both the street and the once wealthy neighborhood, the color pink is associated with innocence and cheerfulness, just as the ribbons themselves are a modest and innocent decoration. Hawthorne mentions Faith's pink ribbons many times early in the story, filling her character with youth and happiness. Reintroduce the tapes when Goodman Brown is still in the forest, struggling with his doubts about the righteousness of the people he knows. When the pink ribbon falls from the sky, Goodman Brown perceives it as a sign that Faith has finally fallen to the path of the devil, losing this sign of her purity and innocence. At the end of the story, Faith greets Goodman Brown as he returns from the forest; she's wearing her pink ribbons again. This indicates that she has returned to the innocence she presented at the beginning of the story and dispelled doubts about the faithfulness of Goodman Brown's experiences. Although these are two very different stories, the symbolic structures are more or less the same. They give the reader some insight into the character as the reader is able to put the pieces together and gain a better understanding of the main character of the story. Emily's house is an extension of herself in the way she lived in the past and as young Goodman Brown takes a walk down the path of the unknown; must revive the past, testing its already fragile