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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”**

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 short story entitled Mystery of Heroism by Stephen Crane, a brave young soldier called Collins decides to risk his life. He wants to prove to the rest of his company that he is a man, and he is tough, and he can go get water from the well. Which is pretty far from where they’re staying. He runs into the enemy and quickly dashes for the well, just barely making it out of the line of fire and to the well to retrieve the water and bring it back to his boys. But, on the way back, he gets stopped by an old officer, who had been shot and was dying. The officer wanted a drink but Collins said “No, I can’t!” and kept moving on. But after a brief thought he went back and gave the men water and returned back. I believe that Collins is a very brave soldier. But I don’t think he wanted to get the water because he was actually brave. He wanted to prove that he was brave. Or he felt like he needed to prove it. But in all actuality, he is brave. No other man wanted to do that.

In the story April Showers, we find ourselves with a couple main characters. Theodora and her mother and father. Theodora wants so badly to be a writer. But her parents want her to be anything but that. They have her do work around the house to keep herself busy and focused on anything but writing. Theodora is a well educated girl from a high class family. You can tell that she’s well educated by the way that she speaks and by the way that she writes. Theodora follows her id by writing the story anyways, and sending it in to the paper, her superego by taking care of her family like she’s supposed to, and her ego by saying she’ll make up for it when she gets money from the story. Theodora wants to please her family, but at the same time wants to go after her goals. In The Invalids Story, a man has to take his childhood friend from Ohio to Wisconsin on a train ride. However, the body gets mixed up with a box of guns. He actually doesn’t have his friends body at all. In fact, someone on a completely different train has it. He boarded the train and met the Expressman, Thompson. Thompson spoke with a thick heavy accent. Neither of them really noticed, or paid much attention to a man who set a mysterious box next to the Invalid. Inside contained a smelly block of Limburger cheese. The cheese smelled so bad, both of them blamed the smell on the Invalid’s friend. The smell was almost unbearable. And eventually lead to the death of the Invalid.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**