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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. In yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilmore, humans tend to control others and we tend to lose ourselves. Jane and her husband John went to a mansion because there house is getting work done. They are supposed to stay for 3 months. And she think that she is sick but her husband just think that she’s depressed and that she needs sleep. When Jane looks upstairs in the attic there is yellow wallpaper on the walls and a bed that’s been nailed down and looks like it has been chewed on. When she was lying awake one night she thought she saw the wallpaper moving so she got up and touched the wall. And sure enough it was moving and she tried to get through the wall but her husband held her back and wouldn’t let her get in the wall. She saw a woman, she didn’t tell her husband because he would think she was crazy. The walls look like they have been scratched at all over the walls. So one night she when her husband is out she rips the wallpaper off the walls and her fingers are all bloody. When she finally got the woman out it took her body over and she went crazy. She started to walk on all fours around the wall and she got yellow on her dress. Her husband asks her what she was doing and he fainted. And she would just walk over him like he was just nothing. The protagonist is Jane, she is the main character of the story because the story is dealing with her problems and her hallucinations. The antagonist is her husband and the wall paper because they are patriarchy, her husband is a patriarchy because he likes to control Jane and tell her that she can’t write and that she’s all better and there is nothing wrong with her. But she sees a woman in the wall and she knows that she’s not all better there is something terribly wrong with her. I think that John is Jane’s strength because he is strong and she’s weak but at the end of the story John is weak by fainting because Jane was strong so she crawled all over him to show that she was stronger than him. Jane is a round character because there is a lot of sides to her personality, when she’s all worried that someone is in the wall paper but in the end she wants to be in the room with the woman that is crawling around so she locks the door and through the key out the window, she wanted to see the woman for herself she didn’t want anyone else seeing her not even John. She is also a dynamic character because she writes and her husband doesn’t want her too, she’s very depressed that she can’t figure out why the wall paper is moving, and she changes. One minute she’s really depressed and scared what’s behind the wall paper and next she’s determined to figure out what is behind the wall paper. __ Don’t try to control someone because in the end you will be the weak one!!! __
 * Chopin’s “Story of and Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”**

//Ideas: Nice job identifying the theme! You do a lovely job identifying examples out of the text to support your ideas of each of these literary terms :) Organization: You've got a great start to how you've organized your writing; your conclusion is the only thing I would work on. Conventions: Remember that short story titles go in quotations//.

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”**

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”**