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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”**

**__ The Yellow Wallpaper __** The story the yellow wallpaper is takes place in a mansion, but mostly in the room in that mansion. In that room hangs yellowed colored wallpaper. In that room rest a sick woman, but it’s not a flu the girl has. Her husband whishes she would just stay in bed. The girl begins to feel trapped, imprisoned, and when humans are controlled by others they lose their since of self. The narrarator (Jane) is the lady in the bed room who we get to see all sides of. She believes she sees things in the wall paper but every time she mentions it her husband dismisses it as nothing. She believes she is getting better and then she just gets worse, falling in to her own secluded mind. Her husband john on the other hand always talks down on her almost belittling her and is that way through the whole story. John is the antagonist in the story always belittling his wife. John is obviously the head of the family and treats Jane as if she was a child. jane is not expected to work only to bare children
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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?
 * Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”**

**__ The Mystery of Heroism __** //The Mystery of Heroism is// a story that takes place during the civil, where death can happen at anytime and doesn’t discriminate. The story is one of right and wrong, ethics and morals. It follows Fred Collins, a southern man who is trying to stay alive in a world where killing is as likely as the sun rise, and the problems that follow. This story is filled with imagery that puts picture in your head that makes you feel like you’re in the civil war. Crane writes, “In the air was the odour as from conflagration. (pg.1) You can almost smell the fire and burning like your actually there. crane also goes on to talk about the Among everything the story is about want and morals. Collins is put against a hard decision; give the water he had risked his life to get to a dying man in the middle of the battlefield or run to safety where he can drink all the water he wants. Collin’s Id wants to keep the water for himself and disregarded the dying officers wishes, but his super ego is knows that it would be morally wrong to leave a dying man without the water he wants. His ego has him looking both ways not sure what to do, fighting to please them both.

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”**
 * // The story I am writing about is April showers. The story follows Theodora a young girl who wants to be a writer. She is the protagonist of the story. Theodora struggles against her own Id that just wants to be a writer and her superego that knows that helping her family is probably the best thing to do. Her ego is fighting to maintain a balance between the two. In the story Wharton writes,” hasn’t mothers tray gone up yet?” This dialect shows that the characters are a higher class in Massachusetts.  //**