●When Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” was written in 1898, it was generally considered unnatural for women to have sexual desire. How does Chopin’s story critique this patriarchal belief? What other patriarchal ideology does the story critique? What does the story suggest about the intersection of patriarchy, religion, and socioeconomic class?
●In what ways might we say that William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (1931) plays with traditional gender categories, revealing the biases and limitations of traditional definitions of gender? Psychoanalyst
●How might we use an understanding of the superego to help us interpret William Golding’s Lord of the Flies ?
●How might an understanding of denial and displacement (in this case, displacement of negative feelings for one’s husband onto one’s child) help us analyze the narrator’s relationship to her troubled daughter in Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” (1956)?
