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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”**

**// Yellow Wallpaper //**
 * // By: charlotte Perkins Gilman //**
 * // In the yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is about a women’s life during a summer. Jane who is the narrator and the protagonist, She has a son which she wants nothing to do with what so ever because she tends to get very nervous around him, She’s married to a physician who has restrained her to the upstairs bedroom of the house they rented for the summer, She is controlled by him and banned from working and she also has to hide her personal journal entries from him so that she can recover from a temporary depression. The windows from her room are barred as if she was in a jail or a sort of mental institute, There is also a gate at the top of the stairs which grants her husband power to control her access of her being anywhere else in the house. She eventually becomes obsessed with the pattern and color of the wallpaper in her bedroom there’s something weird about the wallpaper though it’s not a normal yellow it’s a very interesting type of yellow and the color is not the only strange thing about it but also its smell. In the end she imagines that there is various women creeping behind the pattern of the wallpaper, She ends up thinking that she is one of the women creeping behind the pattern, She ends up locking herself in the room because she feels that that’s the only place where she is safe, When the time comes to leave the summer house she refuses too, She doesn’t feel safe because everything outside is green and not yellow. //**
 * // Jane is the protagonist and her husband and the wallpaper are the antagonist. Jane and John live in a patriarchy because everything her husband says goes, That just makes her feel as if she has no freedom because she can’t make any decisions for herself //**

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? “Mystery of Heroism” Stephen Crane Mystery of a heroism is about a soldier and his inner conflict is whether he is a hero or not. He ends up doing something that the other soldiers think is dumb, He crosses a battlefield to get some water he feels as if he was a hero because he wasn’t scared to cross the battlefield and get water, But then the fair starts to get a hold of him. When he is walking back with the water he runs into this a wounded officer who asks him for water he gets scared so he just keeps going as he was but then he ends up turning back and giving the man water probably one of the bravest things he’s done so far but then when he goes back he realized that the man was dead.
 * 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”**