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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 Wallpaper by charlotte Perkins Gilman Humans tend to control others causing one to lose themselves. There are many times in society were one person feels that they need control over the other for example a man over a women. In our society many think the men are the ones that are in control so that is what they are raised believe and the belief continues to be passed down through generations. The Protagonist in this story is Janie, because she is the one narrating her story through a journal. She is the main character that seems to be the one facing great difficulties and everything stands in her way she is the right one while everyone and everything opposes her. Janie is the a round character because we see many sides of her though out the story. We see depression, happiness, anger and many other emotions but she gradually changes though out he story and throughout the event that happen. She is also dynamic because she doesn’t stay the same she gradually changes weather good or bad changes she still changes and learns The antagonist would be the society because it is what makes her go insane. In her time the society she lives in thinks that men are the ones that control the household so she feels trapped and restrained because she has to act how society says women should behave but all that does is making her feel trapped and imprisoned by the fact that she has no control over her own choices or her own life because her husband deals with everything else since he is the man. In society many think they need to control others but in many cases that leads to one losing the sense of who they are. It leads to them feeling suffocated, trapped, imprisoned……. Even through the intention for the control were meant as pure n good it can lead to a unhappy ending like in the story of 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”**

In __The Invalid’s Story__ by author Mark Twain u can see how the author uses dialect to indirectly characterize the protagonist, with that it tells one a lot about the character and how they are influenced the their humanity. In the story the Mark twain uses dialect to indirectly characterize the protagonist whose name in this story is Deacon Levi Hackett. There are many different ways people can talk depending where they come from and what time they are from. In this story it’s the time this story is based on the where he is from. For example in the story Thompson says “ supposi’n we buckle down to it and give the cornel a bit of a shove toward t’other end of the car” now a day’s people don’t speak like that but in the story the author wants to characterize the protagonist so he gives him a dialect to make him stand out.  Using the dialect to make a character stand out can tell u a lot about the character. For example it can give u hints of where he is from or what time the character is from. It can also tell u what type of person the character is by what he says and how he says it.  In the story u can clearly see how their id, ego and superego influence their actions throughout the story. For example his Id want to throw the body out because of the smell yet his superego knows its wrong and knows that they need to keep the body so that his friend can get a proper burial and then his ego balances out his decision. It helps him decide to keep the body and just deal with the smell some other way or put up with the smell.  In __The Invalid’s Story__ by Mark Twain the author uses dialect to indirectly characterize the protagonist. Without this the story would have interest it would be dull with a dull character. You wouldn’t be able to understand the character and her wouldn’t stand out.  