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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”**

In the story “Yellow Wallpaper “we see and find out out that people tend to go crazy when someone or something makes their decisions or when someone else speaks out for them. This could make people go mad, crazy or insane because maybe they wanted the opposite of what they chose for them. Jane in my opinion was the Protagonist cause she was stuck in sort of like a house jail cause she had bars in her window so she couldn’t go out and more than half of the day she was inside the room that John her husband kept her in. Then the Antagonist would be society because she’s tired of being inside the room and she wants to go outside and feel the fresh breeze and wind.

//You've done a great job identifying the theme and applying feminist criticism. I would have like to see you put more thought into the antagonist though. You did a great job finding the important parts of the work. Can you explain why you didn't include foil, round, dynamic, etc? I need to see that you know these. conventions: only capitalize proper nouns. cause/because very different words.//

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 Stevens’s crane’s “Mystery of Heroism” this story takes place back in the civil war when they were fighting for the changes they wanted. Then as the story begins this soldier’s ego got in the way and made him do this crazy thing that was to go and get water from the other side of the battle field jus because he was thirsty. And this story is basically on how he went and managed to go through the other side for the water and come back alive. The mood that is being created here is mostly courage and determination cause his ego was telling him that that he was thirsty and his ID was encouraging him to go ahead and get the water from the other side of the battle field. And he didn’t pay much attention to his super ego which was telling him to try to rethink what he was doing or about to do. AS the story goes on he could see the there rival war members looking and making fun of him as if they were making fun of him and they were about to go ahead and kill him.
 * Crane’s “Mystery of Heroism”**

//Good work identifying the mood of the work :) I would like to see you show me examples of imagery to support your ideas of mood. I would like to see you explain the superego a bit more; I'm not sure you've got that one down.// //conventions: id isn't capitalized.//

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 April showers the Maine character’s name is Theodora dace she is an unknown author but desperately wanted her book to be published. But her luck jus didn’t came as fast as she expected it to come. But she never gave up her hopes so she continued on. So finally she got the news that they were going to publish it. Her ego wanted to get her book published it jus didn’t happen as soon as she wanted it to happen. Her ID wanted to quit already but her super ego kept on telling her to don’t give up her hopes that sooner or later they were going to like and accept it. So she followed her super ego and now it has been published. In “The Invalid’s Story” The characters try to find watts cussing such a horrible smell. Because they are in train which was going to Wisconsin but they jus couldn’t stand the awful smell they tried almost everything to get rid of the smell but they jus couldn’t find out was causing the smell so they tried burning all the things that they thought it was causing it.
 * Wharton’s “April Showers” and Twain’s “The Invalid’s Story”**