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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”**

The yellow wallpaper Emilie Nicolai The story I decided to right write about is the yellow wall paper. Some of the characters in the story are Jane is the main character who has the illness Jane is a round character. Her husband john is a flat character. Jenny is the babysitter for their baby. Now that I have told you who the characters are I am going to go more in depth to what all happened in the story and about the characters and what their roles were. We first entered the story not knowing the name of the main character so all through the story we just learned things about her and like in the end of the story we learned her name. Jane has a illness and that is called depression and she can’t take care of her baby because whenever she is around her she gets nervous. Jane is a round character and that is because we see all sides to her she is sad in the story happy at times and depressed as you can tell since she has depression. John is her husband and he is a doctor and he is the one that is keeping Jane safe from there kid so that their child she doesn’t do anything that she regrets. John is a static character but john is also the antagonist and he is the one that is like the bad guy in the story thinking that he is doing good things of his wife but really she is just going crazy. Jane is a protagonist and she is like the good character and she just wants the wallpaper down in her bedroom because she sees someone in the wall paper but really it was her in the wallpaper. Jenny is the sitter for their child but she is also john’s sister and she is a flat character because we only see one side

You do a great job of showing me that you know the definition of round character, and I'd like to see more examples from the text to support your ideas. You say that she's sad, but I'd love to have a detail from the text to support this assertion. Excellent job with antagonist and protagonist examples! Conventions: when you're referencing a short story the title goes in quotations.

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”**

In the story “Mystery of Heroism” by Stephen Crane. The setting takes place in a battlefield. Everyone is thirsty for water and when they find a well they send Fred Collins to go across the battlefield. That’s when we meet our first character Fred Collins and he is fighting in the battle and also wants to get water for himself. In my writing I am going to tell you about the mood of the setting, the motivations driven by their id, ego and superego. The mood of the story is that they are at war with the other side in the story we never find out who they are fighting against. The story is not centered around who they are in a fight with. It comes down to when we are talking about Collins getting water for himself and this other soldiers after he was told to by his other soldiers to get them water too. When Collins had to go get the water he had to go straight across the battlefield he brought over can tines but they didn’t fill up fast enough so he gets a bucket and fills that up. The image that I picture in the story is that when he is running across the battlefield. When he going across the battlefield because I was scared that he wasn’t going to make it across to get the water. On his way back this guy was like I am dyeing

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 the story april showers there are a few characters that show their id, ego, superego, and dialect. In the story there is a main character that goes by the name of theodora or her pen name, Gladys Glyn. She writes a story where she plans on sending it to the home cirlce to see if it gets accepted and published, the story did get accpeted but the publishers got the story title mixed up with another authors novel. When theodora saw the mistake her id showed that she got mad and just up and left to go down to the home circle, her ego brung her to where she knew that she shouldn’t be doing the writing and that since she did she thought that she could pay her family back in the future but then her superego brung her to where she knew she had to stay and take care of the household. In the story I think her father brought the dialect to the story by the way he said “who was to take it, I should like to know?” it shows that he is very proper and or should I said well educated.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**