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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? The story of an hour is about a woman being trapped in a relationship that she doesn’t have control over. I would blame the society for this cause, society plays a big roll back in the 1800’s because women are not being treated as wives or sisters during that period of time. The story of an hour illustrates how most of the relationships where back in the days. The protagonist is Louis Mallard who has a heart problem that can maybe take her life. Louis was unhappy with her marriage but couldn’t do a thing about it because of the society so she had to stay married even though she feels that way. And some religions don’t allow getting divorced. Suddenly she hears the death of her husband and she was free but only for a moment. After a while a knock on the door changes everything when she sees her husband at the door. So her poor little heart couldn’t take the excitement mixed up with hurt and unhappiness at that moment she didn’t know how to react to the situation so her heart stopped.
 * Chopin’s “Story of and Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”**

Identify whether the protagonist is round or flat, dynamic or static. Support your response with examples from the text.

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 the story of “Mystery of Heroism” is somehow an example of a man becoming a hero. The protagonist was Collins who was at a battle field trying to prove a point to his fellow soldiers. The mood was an intense feeling and the imagery was a battle field with bullets flying from both ends. Imagine being in a war and running through it, with gun firs and bombs coming from both sides and the smell coming from a conflagration just to satisfy your thirst. His motivation was his own confidence and strong heart. Collins id doesn’t want him to die even though his at war where people mostly have a chance of fifty- fifty of surviving. But his chance almost went up to 100% of losing his life because his thirst almost killed him. His ego wanted him to prove a point but not die doing it which was risky because he was face to face with his enemy soldiers at the water well. But his super-ego wanted him to help the dying man who was hurt with a horse putting pressure on him.
 * 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? The invalid story’s, the narrator is our protagonist who had to carry his friends dead body on a train with him to take it back home. But something unexpected happened which the narrator was taken off with the wrong coffin at the train station. So throughout the whole trip back home the narrator had to deal with a very strange odor. Even the Thomson the train conductor couldn’t believe how a body could smell that way in just few days after death. The narrator’s id wanted to get rid of the smell even Thomson felt the same way. But he couldn’t just throw away his buddy even tough hi couldn’t handle the smell. And his ego stayed calm didn’t panic or throw away the body throughout the whole trip even though the odor was extremely strong to handle. Maybe some people would have thrown the body away just to get rid of the smell, but his superego couldn’t do it, he kept the smelly coffin and finished the trip.  April Showers was about a young, smart woman who dreamed of becoming a publisher or a writer. Her first novel “April Showers”
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**