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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”**

“Yellow Wallpaper” in this story the theme is that women are trapped and want to be set free. Society and men in the old days had women at home not gaining any intelligence or work. Society thought women should be stay at home moms to take care of children and house work. The woman behind the wallpaper represents a woman trapped. The wallpaper represents society and men and how they kept women trapped. In this story our protagonist is Jane the woman who is said to be sick. She is the protagonist because she is the one telling the story. I would describe her as a round character because she had shown many different personalities. I would also describe her as a dynamic character because she became something totally different by the end of the story. Our antagonist in the story would be her husband because he keeps her from doing what she wants. He treated her like a child. I would describe him as a round character because he shows love, compassion, and anger. I would also describe him as a static character because he doesn’t change at all by the end of the story. Our foil would be the woman and the wallpaper. The woman because she represents the women of that time and how they were trapped behind the stereotypes of men. The wallpaper because it represents the men and society keeping women away. The wallpaper acts as a prison. Point is that women were treated unequally and they deserved to be treated better. Men and society wanted to imprison women so that they could not do what they wanted. Like the woman in the wallpaper women did everything in their power to be set free.

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 was written by Stephen Crane. In this story the main character Collins is thirsty and he is antagonized into getting it. Collins wanted water and he got it. In the middle of the battlefield there be a well next to an abandoned barn that was blown to pieces by guns, and cannons. Collins wanted water so he was going to go in the middle of the battlefield and get it. Who is Collins? Collins is the protagonist of this story. The mood of this story created is intensity. Collins was taken in by his Id he wanted to satisfy his thirst, so he went to the middle of the battlefield and got a pale of water. As soon as he got to the well he became enraged with fear. As he ran back his superego came into play because he came along a dying man who wanted water. At first he ran right by then he turned around and went back and his ego came into play. He gave the man some water quickly and splashed it in his face. Collins sensed what was right and gave the man some water and ran for his life. Collins went through a lot just to get some water and he did it. So anyone will do anything thing to satisfy their Id, ego, and superego, and sometimes the thing they want to satisfy will be really stupid.
 * 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 these two story’s there is a character that is characterized by their dialect and each of them are influenced by their id, ego, and superego. In the story “April Showers” Theodora addresses her dad by father which is a form of dialect. It is a form of dialect because she is of an older time and her dad is of a higher rank than her. This is also the way that children talked to their parents in her day. Theodora is influenced by her id because what pleased her was to write and she did. She was influenced by her superego because the right thing to do for her would be to take care of the family and basically become a house wife and make sure everything was done. The thing that balanced everything out was her ego and she decided to take care of her responsibilities, write in secret and make up for what she had done when she got the money for her story. In the “Invalid’s Story” Thompson is characterized kind of like an old western guy. I get this kind of feeling towards him because of the way he speaks. He uses the word cur ‘us instead of curious and that’s slang I think. In the story the narrator’s id is to get rid of this awful stench that he smells. His superego told him to just bear with the smell, and the balance between the two was to create something to get rid of the smell which didn’t work it only made the smell worse. That is how I explain dialect, id, ego, and superego. Hope you understood what I meant by it all.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**