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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”**

In //The yellow wall paper by charlotte Perkins Gillman// it is about this women named Jane who is also the narrator in this story. Her husband named is john and he is a physician/doctor who thinks that she is perfectly find and just because he is a doctor he thinks that he better and smarter than her and there for she can’t make her own decision. Which drivers her insane because she has no say or control over her life. Jane is the protagonist and john and the wall paper is the antagonist. Jane and john are husband and wife and they live in a patriarchy where everything the husband says goes. That’s just makes her crazy because she can’t make a decision for herself. The wall paper is in the room that her husband pick that they had to stay in for the three months that they where there. She doesn’t like the yellow wall paper one bit and it drivers her crazy for the next three months. She believes that there is a woman in the wall paper and she comes out during the day. The very last day she just loses it and starts to rip down the wall paper and locks her self in the room and starts to creep around the floor against the wall making a line.

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? In Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”, a man fighting in the civil war. Our protagonist in this story is Fred Collins, he was fighting for the north and he wanted a drink, but the well was all the way down the meadow and the southern were by it in the forest. He really wanted a drink and all the other guys where making fun of him saying that he wouldn’t make it to the well. So that motivated him to go out there and get some water. On his way back he was running with a heavy bucket of water for the men. But on his way back he ran by this dying man who wanted some water. At first he said no and kept on running but then he came back and poor it on his face. When he got back to the men the bucket was empty. The mood for this story to me was scared for his life and excheus to see what happens. Psychoanalytic criticism analyzes the way person behaves. Structural model parts the ego, the super ego, and the ID. His ID wanted that drink and when he was brings the water back his ID wanted him to hurry up get back. His ego dump the water on that dying man and when he bought the water back for the men. His superego wanted to d something good for the dying man. This point to this story is that he wanted a drink that he never got because he gave it to the dying man.
 * Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”**

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? April showers In Wharton” April showers”, a young women wants to be a writer, but she can’t because her parents won’t allow it. Since she is the eldest she has to take care of the family because her mother is sick. Like the cooking, cleaning getting the kids ready for school and so on. She does all her writing in secret. She wrote a whole novel. She sends her novel in to a publisher called home circles. They sent her a letter back saying that they will put it in the midsummer number. When she got the newspaper she saw her title but not her story or name. So she was mad so she went to the publisher to ask what happen to her story and they said it was a misprint because Kathleen Kyd. Her id wanted to write. Her superego was telling her to take care of her family. Her ego wanted to write and get money so that she can give back it her family. The Invalid’s story  In Twain “ The Invalid’s story”, a young man friend dies and his last dying wish was to have his body taken home to his parents in Wisconsin. He gets his friends coffin and he steps away for a second and there was a mixes up his friends body got mixed with a box full of guns
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**