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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”**

In the //Story of an Hour// by Kate Chopin when humans lose freedom a part of us dies. Like Louise Mallard has heart problems and she receives bad news her husband has died. Louise Mallard gets really upset, alone and thinks she is free because she doesn’t have a husband. Then time passes by and her husband Brently Mallard arrives. When she sees him she dies because he was actually alive. The protagonist and round character in this story is Louise Mallard because she is the main character of the story and we get to see her sad at the beginning of the story and then happy of seeing her husband alive. The antagonist and flat character is her husband because he is not there with Louis mallard and causes the protagonist to die also because we only see one side of him. Her husband is the reason she dies because when he arrived she died from happiness of seeing him. Static character is Brently Mallard he stayed the same throughout the story but dynamic character Louise Mallard she changed throughout the story.

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 “Mystery of Heroism” by Stephen Crane there at war and Collins one of the soldiers gets thirsty and wants a drink of water. He risks his life going to the well were this house was that had been torn. When he getting there some soldiers are in a line and start to fire at him. He gets all frightened and terrified. But he is safe and starts to fill the canteens from the well. He looks at the canteens fill up very slow so instead he uses a bucket and carries it. While he going back a man on his horse is on the ground asks him for a drink of water. At first he tells him no but then turns back and gives him water. When Collins is going to get the water his Id is just doing what feels good because he is thirsty and wants a drink of water.
 * 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? In “April Shower” by Edith Wharton Theodora is responsible for her family but she wants to become a writer. She writes a manuscript and sends it to Home Circle. The she receives a letter saying her manuscript is going to be published. She gets excited but when the book arrives published the author name is different. So she decides to go to Home Circle to fix the problem but they tell her that they received another manuscript that was Mrs.Kyd’s. Theodora’s id wants her to write and publish a book so she forgets her mother’s breakfast and about Johnny’s button. Her superego just wants to take care of her family. The way her ego balances things out is by writing a book and getting it published to get thing for her family but her manuscript does not get published. Dialect in this story is that Theodora was a well educated person because she always showed respect to her parents.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**