1. Explain why Mark Twains The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyis representative of both local color realism, via character dialect, and the literary movement of realism at the same time. As always define key terms, like Realism, and the book is a fine source…For local color realism, use what you know of realism to define how dialect and location choices make local color realism come to life in Twain’s story. p. 134.
2. What do you think is wrong with Daisy in Henry Jamess Daisy Miller? p. 425 in Realism and Naturalism section
3. What do you think is wrong with the first-person narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wall-paper? p 831 and 843
4.Explicate for me William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow to the point that you can explain how this poem fits into the Modernist movement. Be sure to cite a definition for Modernism, as we will do later with Eliot. Modernism is a big concept, so we want to spend time understanding the key elements of the literary movement that follows Naturalism and Realism.
