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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 story I chose was __Story of an Hour__. The story was about a lady named Luies Mallard who had just found out she had lost he husband. As the emotion sat in she ran up to her room and cried, but as she sat there she started to think. “I’m free” she said it over and over again. As she was thinking her sister was at the door trying to see if she was ok. When she walked out the room she was happy, there know one holding her down any more. When she was coming down the stairs there was a noise with the door knob, as the door open it was her husband. The look on her face was happiness but inside all she could think about is I am not free. Which caused her death. The Protagonist of this story is Luies Mallard because she is the main character of the story. She is the one that has to take the pain of knowing that her husband is dead but the excitement of her being free. As She said in the story “Free Free Free” that’s just how she felt as she sat there. And when she found out that her husband was not dead it was a happy but said moment.

The antagonist is her husband because

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”**

The name of this story is “Mystery of Heroism” by Stephen Crane. This story was about a man in the civil war that is wanting water really bad. The man goes to get the water but there was war going on at the time. The story has a lot of imagery such as the time he was running back from getting water and he saw the man laid out on the ground with his horse on top of him. The imagrey of the story was the fact that he wanted water and when he went to get some as he was coming back he
 * Yo brent look behind you lol he on youtube.com**

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? This story is about a man who was on a train and he felt like there was a man dead on the trian but it was a bag full of guns and some cheese on a hot day so it smelled really bad and so they felt that the man had been dead for day maybe mounths. So they go back to look and they find that there is no dead man there is guns. This story is about a girl who wanted to be a writer. But there were things in her way she had to clean the house and do other things. When she finlly thoght she was a writer she got a smack in the face when she found out they had put the wrong story in so her life went down the dran.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**