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Modern American Literature: Rise of Realism

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”**

//Yellow Wallpaper// was the story on a woman named Jane and her husband John she was sick with depression and he told her that she wasn’t sick and him being a docotor she believed him and tried to get better the way he wanted her too causing her to go insane. The theme to this story was that when you let someone decide for you for so long and never speak up you eventually loose you voice and no one listens to what you have to say. The foil in this story was with Jane and the room. This room made her show that she was lying that she was actually sick and she can speak for herself and she showed the when someone is sick you don’t just lock them and a room all day and night and expect them to get better. The foil in this story affects the theme because she was always listening to her husband and never made decisions on her own and so when she was actually trying to he wouldn’t listen to her. Jane the protagonist was controlled by her husband and didn’t make decisions on her, she believed he husband because she thought he knew what was best for her. The antagonist was society and her husband. Society was one because it influenced her to believe what her husband says is right and to go by what he says. The husband was also one because he followed society’s rules and never let her speak up for herself and when she did he either didn’t believe or treated her as if she was a little girl and didn’t know what she was talking about. John he wouldn’t let her write to express herself so she had to hide from him. She was also round she went from happy sad to mad and even more depressed. Jane was a dynamic character in this story she went from doing whatever he husband said to slowly rebelling against to show him he was wrong. So was society doing the right thing by making women obey their husbands or was it causing more problems than them actually deciding on their own what to for themselves and what’s right or wrong with them? I don’t think that is right at all, women have their own minds and brains for a reason and should be able to anything that man could do. Can you not deciding things on your own and letting people speak for you actually make you “insane”?

//Wow! Love your theme! very unique compared to other papers! (Careful though -- NO SECOND PERSON -- it turns your beautiful theme into a moral.) I think you've got a good start on foil, but foils need to be **characters**, rooms don't work.// I love how you tie your terminology in with the theme -- great work there! //As far as organization, don't end your paper with a question. In academic writing, we want to nail down an idea and then drive it home in the conclusion; questions don't do that. Great work! I look forward to reading your next essay!//

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 “Th​e Invalid’s Story”**

Id, ego, superego and dialect can show and contrast the difference between people in two regions and can help you learn a lot about any one person. In the story “The Invalids Story” his dialect shows that Thompson is very improper and he isn’t well educated at all for example “We got to stay out here cap. We got to do it. They aint no other way. The governor wants to travel alone and he’s fixed so he can out vote us.” Invalids id was telling him he didn’t want to take the body but his superego was telling him to do what’s right and that was to respect his friends’ wishes and take his body back to his family. His ego made him go about doing that and trying to not to hurt or damage the body even though it stank and was hard for him. In the story “April Shower” Theodora’s id while she was angry just get up and leave her family even though she wasn’t supposed to. Her ego kept her taking care of her family and doing what was right for the most part like helping her sister and her brother with his buttons. Her superego was that she needed to sew her brothers’ buttons and give her sister her oil. The dialect of Doctor Dace shows how he is very well educated, upper class and proper for example “Who was to take it, I should like to know?”

//Nice introduction! Missing some punctuation in this line: ...// that Thompson is very improper, and he isn’t well educated at all ; for example ... //another thing that needs fixing: Apostrophe s = possession (The invalid's id)// //Great example of dialect! and nice use of examples out of the text to support your ideas :)//