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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”**

“YELLOW WALLPAPER ” Yellow wallpaper is a great story written by Charlotte Perkins Gillman. This was written in 1980’s. In the Yellow Wallpaper,” Gillman uses the conventions of the psychological horror tale to critique the position of women within the institution of marriage, especially as practiced by the “respectable” classes of her time. She gave us a great message “stereotype towards women keep them back” through this story “Yellow Wallpaper”. ====Author Gillman arranged Narrator, Jane’s feelings and made this story including every aspects of literature. This literature was written by a female. If it was written by a male then it won’t had the same feelings because it was women who faced problems in 1980’s. So, they have better feeling then a man can do. We can find Narrator as our protagonist and the society as our antagonist. Author had made great relationships between protagonist and antagonist. Gillman used narrator who was a women as a protagonist and her society as an antagonist to show how women were behind in every aspects of society during their times. We can say that narrator and her husband are good example of foil because they both think totally different. Narrator wants to live free but her husband think she is a child and want her to seat at home to take care of domestic works. She wants to do some intellectual work but his husband thinks she should be no more than a housewife. It’s not true that he doesn’t love narrator but he is a stereotypical male. He loves narrator so much but never care about her feelings. The protagonist of “Yellow Wallpaper” is a dynamic character. She has changed the course of the story. When we first look at the story we found her as a kind, lovely lady but at last, by seeing her creeping on her husband and going crazy makes her totally different from what she was. So, we can say she is dynamic. ====

====I really find this story knowledgeable. It teaches us a lot about women in 1980’s. Stereotype towards women keep them back. So, we should give them chance. They can show women can also do anything that a man can do. Patriarchy is not a good practice.====

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
 * Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”**

“Mystery of Heroism” by Stephen Crane is a story about Heroism. Stephen Crane yearn to give a message “mundane people can also do extraordinary work at precise time if they get opportunity. Heros are those they have courage and no fear in theme. Author is showing how an ordinary infantry became a hero of his regiment. Protagonist of the story “Mystery of Heroism,” Collin in a hero. Collin crave some water to drink, so he went to a well, which was at the middle of battle of civil war between a Union and Confederate. Stupid Collin went to the well with full of fear. Obtuse Collin went there thorugh tremendious roars of guns. He can see the crimson terror of explading shells. In the air was an odour as from conflagration. When he reached the well, he was full of fear. He was not a hero. He was a stupid infantry. He pull some water in a bucket. So, with full of trepidation he ran towards his regiment. On way back to his regimet, he saw a wonded officer lieing on the ground. Officer supplicate some dive of water to Collin. Collin didn’t gave water to officer, instead he ran to save his life. When he ran some distance, his super-ego told him to give some drop of water to the officer. So, he ran back and gave some water. Now, he wasn’t feeling fear. He thinks himself as a hero. Now, he is a hero. He

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”**

April Shower “April Shower,” is a story about Theodora, the protagonist of the story. It’s all about her interest of being a genius novelist and supports her family. She is a responsible daughter of her family who takes care of her father with chronic rheumatism, disable mother and younger siblings. She has great passion of writing novels. She wrote “April Shower” and sends it to the Home Circle for publishing. She wanted to support her family from her earning. By mistake she got letter from the Home Circle stating that her novel will be published. When she discovered that it was all mistake then she was so sad. She went to Boston and talked with the publisher. She was said it was all mistake. So she returned back to home. She heeds a lot for her family. Theodora said “Father—O Father”. Author used the prudence of dialect to show that Theodora respected her father, she was educated upper class. The Invalid Story “The Invalid Story,” by Mark Twain is all about a day train journey of a narrator during winter storm of Ohio. Narrator was on the way taking the dead body of his friend to his house.. It was a horrible journey. Thomson the expressman of the train, describe the smell of the body as “Twould ‘a’ ben a dum sight rm, General, better all around, if they’d started him along last summer”. It smelled like a dead body of last summer. Actually both Thomson and narrator were wrong. It was not the box of dead body of narrator’s friend but it was a box full of gun. There was a kind of cheese that smelled horrible. So, they thought it was smell of dead body. Thomson’s id wanted to get rid of them. He sprayed acid, some kind of perfume to maintain smell but it didn’t work. Instead they made the smell more horrible. They also tried to maintain the smell by breathing through the broken window of the train. Narrator really loves his friend. So they didn’t get purge of body. He told “don’t leave your friend, stay with him,”. It was so kind of him.