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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”**

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”**

The invalid’s story In the story of “the Invalid’s Story” the id is when the main character wants to get out of the train. The ego is when he keeps going to the window, back and forth all the time. The superego is when he was taking the dead person’s body to be the person was from which is to Wisconsin. So in this case he was doing something good. This story was about a man that was on the way to a place on the train and there was a smelly odder on the train that the main character thought it was a dead person. The main character took the man to were the man was from to bury him. But when they were on the train they only had a very small window.