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Charlotte Perkins Gilman,

"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)

Ambrose Bierce,

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1891)

What? (Plot)

  • Inciting incidents?
  • Characters?
  • Climax?
  • Conclusion?

How?

  • First person or third? (What's the format?)
  • How does the yellow wallpaper "evolve?"

Why?

  • Why does she go mad? (Hint: what's hysteria?)

What tropes have we seen so far?

What? (Plot)

  • Setting?
  • Characters?
  • Flashback?
  • Inciting incidents/climax?
  • Conclusion?

How?

  • What happens in each section? What's the order/chronology?
  • Situational irony?

Why?

  • What does Farquhar want? Does he get it? Why not?

Guy de Maupassant, "The Necklace" (1884)

What?

  • Inciting incidents?
  • Characters?
  • Climax?
  • Conclusion?

How?

  • Building irony
  • Descriptions: Upper class vs. middle class vs. working class.
  • Surprise!

Why?

  • Why does Mathilde seem to "age?" What happens to her class status?
  • What role does debt play in the story?

Oscar Wilde, "The Happy Prince" (1888)

What?

  • Characters?
  • Format: Fable
  • Setting as character: The Happy Prince's city
  • Setting as character: Egypt
  • Inciting incidents? Climax? Conclusion?

How?

  • Descriptions of death, riches; class.

Why?

  • What's the moral of this fable?

Last time, in ENG 102 . . .

Late 19th Century Short Stories ENG 102

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