Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Story The Yellow Wallpaper

Ford describes the representation of feminism and women’s social status in our society. She mentions how women can make a decision, take an action, and move forward. Instead of repeating about how women should be treated in society, Ford takes all the negative aspects and converts them into women empowerment. She also compares the marriage life and life after becoming a mother. Ford also views every girl as a hero and sees their problems as powerful tools that they carry with them to defeat the world.

The Things They Carried

“The Things They Carried” is a novel about the American war that happened in Vietnam. This famous novel of the war is not just a story, it is about the emotions, pains and memories that the soldiers carried with them. Vernon describes “The Things They Carried” as an open book where one can learn how war has played a significant role in enhancing their life. Things like new culture, tradition, norms, and value were also carried in the war besides emotions, pains, and memories. Vernon also details all the characters in the story and gives us the meaning that they are giving to the reader.

A Jury of her Peers

Bendel describes the story as an analysis of the alterations between men and women approaching an investigation. Martha Hale is the protagonist, and, as a farmer’s wife, she is overworked by domestic household tasks. The story develops the conflicts between gender loyalty and the male-dominated system. The story argues that the punishment for crimes leads to the greater form of justice than pursuing the law. Bendel also mentions how men and women have different points of view of things and situations. One of the significance facts of the story is the decision that comes between pursuing the law and justice. Laws are rules and justices are more than just a reaction.

The Cask of Amontillado

Baraban states that “The Cask of Amontillado” is a story of the confession of a man who committed a crime that has been hidden for fifty years. Baraban describes all the characters perfectly and in detail. She goes to the depth of the story to find out what made Montresor murder Fortunato. The narrator begins by telling us that Fortunato has hurt him. Even worse, Fortunato has insulted him. The narrator must get revenge. Montresor traps Fortunato in the catacombs with a cask of Amontillado, and then proceeds to bury him alive. Fortunato’s body remains undiscovered for fifty years.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor opens in the household with a discussion of planning a family tour to Florida. Flint gives some observation about the specific references to the Civil War and the fight between good versus evil. The themes of O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” also suggests death, loss, and mortality. In the story, “a good man” title is used by the grandmother to describe what a good man would look like. According to Flint, the story makes at least four Civil War references with details about the things, places, persons, and events that had happened at the time.

Ford, Karen. “‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Women’s Discourse.” Tulsa Studies on Women’s Literature, vol. 4, no. 2, 1985, pp. 309–314. MLA International Bibliography.

Bendel-Simso, Mary M. “Twelve Good Men or Two Good Women: Concepts of Law and Justice in Susan Glaspell’s ‘A Jury of her Peers’” Studies in the short Fiction 36, 1999, pp. 291-297. Newberry College.

Baraban, Elena V. “The Motive for Murder in ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ by Edgar Allan Poe.” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 58, no. 2, 2004, pp. 47–62.

Flint, Thomas P. “On the Significance of Civil War References in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.’” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 70, no. 2, 2018, pp. 119–128.