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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”**

In Gilman’s “ **the yellow wallpaper** ” the theme is that, when human beings tend to control each other they tend to lose themselves, because you see how the protagonist (Jane) changes as the antagonist (John) tries to control her as if she was a small child. Jane is a round character, because you get to see her from many different sides. She is also a dynamic character, because she doesn’t stay the same throughout the whole story. Though Jane is round and dynamic she easily lets her husband control her, because he is a doctor and is apparently more experienced and he tries to control her with it which eventually drives her into a state of clinical break down/insanity.

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 Stephen Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”, it shows many moods, examples of imagery, and examples of psychoanalytic criticism. The story is about a southern soldier in the civil war going through a life changing action all because of peer pressure. Throughout this story there is just one overall mood that I noticed and that was fear. The fear is mostly caused by the imagery throughout the story. A great example of imagery in the story Crane writes, “He could see nothing but flying arrows, flaming red” (4). When I read this I just got a picture of battle and the mood was just fear. Though this story has great examples of mood and imagery it also has some good examples for psychoanalytic criticism especially when he passed the lieutenant on the battle field who wanted a drink of water now his ID said keep running don’t give him any we want to live but his Super ego said help give a nice drink. So to balance them his ego told him to just dump some water on his face and keep running. His balanced him so that he didn’t die and helped out a dying man. In Stephen Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”, it shows great examples of many things. Though the character risked his life does that make him a hero or just a fool? What does it take to be a hero? Some people think they know what a hero is, maybe they do maybe they don’t. I’m not even sure but I have a pretty good idea.

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 Wharton’s “April Showers” the protagonist is a child who has to take care of her family but wants to write so sends in story to a magazine send her the wrong mail back letter. The protagonist’s id wants to write to be famous, her superego wanted to take care of her family, and to balance it her ego wanted to write to make money for her family. Throughout the story the characters speak with a dialect “I suppose you didn’t get home from the ball till morning” as said by her father it is like a heavy dialect but a dialect all the same. In Twain’s “the invalid’s story” the protagonist goes to deliver his friend’s body to his parents house in a different state box starts smelling it is actually some cheese the box turns out to have been mixed up with a different box filled with guns. The protagonist’s id wants to get rid of the body; his superego wants to keep the body for family, and to balance it his ego burns stuff to get rid of smell. In this story the character Thompson has a very heavy dialect as in the story “yes n’deedy, it’s awful solemn and cur’us” in this you can clearly read this dialect.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**