Unit I Learning Journal: “The Story of an Hour”
Welcome to our first learning journal entry! This assignment includes two steps:
1. Submission of this completed document in Assignments
2. Posting of your insight to a collaborative Google document.
Working on your own, share your thoughts for each of the prompts below, offering two
observations per question set. Include at least 25 words of explanation for each observation.
Provide page numbers (or paragraph numbers if you don’t yet have the text) & at least partial
quotes as evidence to support your assertions.
1. What does the story indicate life has been like for Mrs. Mallard in the home of Brently
Mallard? How much of Mrs. Mallard's apparent unhappiness in her marriage was perhaps her
own fault?
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Supporting Evidence from Short Story: Click or tap here to enter text.
Observation B: Click or tap here to enter text.
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2. Explain how one might apply psychoanalytical literary criticism to this short story. This type
of literary analysis looks at characters as actual people & addresses what goes on in their
minds, what motivates them, & why they do what they do. (Refer to the back of your text &
the related course video for literary criticism info as needed.)
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Supporting Evidence from Short Story: Click or tap here to enter text.
Observation B: Click or tap here to enter text.
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