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Choose one of the stories to apply feminist criticism to the reading. Identify the protagonist and antagonist and describe their relationship as it relates to the theme. How does the relationship to the foil, if there is one, reflect the theme? Identify whether the protagonist is round or flat, dynamic or static. Support your response with examples from the text.
 * Chopin’s “Story of and Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”**

Select an example of imagery that creates the mood of the story? How does the mood of the setting reflect the character’s motivations driven by their id, ego, and superego?
 * Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”**

What is being described? Battlefield is being described here. What is the mood created? Fear, sadness. The sigh he gazed down into the well shone like two pieces of metal. The smell was a odors as from a conflagration. The sound has futile cries wrenched from him by his agony, were heard only by shells, bullets. The feel was dulled mid groping after the form and color of this incident. What does his id want? His id is he wanted water. What does his ego want? His ego was he wanted to get out of there and get the bucket of water back to his guys. What does his super-ego want? His super-ego wants to help the man dying give him water so he dumped it on the dying man.

How does the author indirectly characterize the protagonist through the use of dialect? What does this tell us about the character? How are they influenced by their id, ego, or superego?
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**