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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. In Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the theme is that when a human being controls another we lose part of our self. In this story Jane is the protagonist character. Her husband seems to treat her not as an adult but as a child. A protagonist character is the character in which it is written in their point of view. There is two antagonist characters, Jane’s husband and the wall. A antagonist character is the character that causes or leads the conflict against the protagonist.
 * Chopin’s “Story of and Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”**

In the story Jane is the protagonist and she is a round character. She changes moods and attitudes throughout the story. She goes from being sad, to happy, to confused, and insane.

Jane is a dynamic character in the story. She is always depressed. She realized that she has control and her husband becomes weak when he notices that she is becoming strong for herself.

In Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Jane is the protagonist character and she starts showing her stronger side. Her husband and the wallpaper would have to be the antagonist characters. The theme is others will lose a part of their self by human beings controlling them.

ideas: I think you're doing a lovely job with theme and the way that you're applying feminist criticism in the way that you describe how he treats her like a child. You need to check your definition of protagonist -- the story isn't always in their point of view. I can see you know your definition of antagonist, but I don't quite understand the examples you gave. I would like to see examples from the text to support your answers (like the round character and dynamic character).

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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? In Stephen Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”, a army man is a being a hero to somebody in need. The protagonist in this story is Fred Collins. He is the army man that gave up his water for a dieing man. The antagonist person is the dieing man. He is the officer that was having a hard time staying alive and needed help. Psychoanalytic criticism is a way to analyze the ways that a person behaves. It’s a way that you can use to analyze the actions of literary characters. Characters personalities influence the work as a whole. The id is that the dieing officer was wanting some water. The ego is that Fred was think weither or weither not to give up his water that he wanted to drink for his self. The superego is telling Fred to jus give up his water to a person that needs it the most. The mood of the story is that he is in fear. He is scared that he is possible going to die.
 * 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? In Edith Wharton’s “April Shower,” Theodora works on trying to change their society for the better. She is the protagonist in the story, who made a promise to her mother that she would be early enough to see that the buttons were sewn on Johnny’s refer and that Kate had her codliver oil before she went to school. Theodore has a lot of responsible to up hold. Her id is that she wants to write but ego is wanting her to take care of there family, she is wanting to give all her money to her family. She choosing to do as her superego says, which is to take care of her family. In Marks Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story,” He was told by his best friend that if he died, he wants him to send his friends body to his family.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**