The Death of John by Alcott

Read http://www.online-literature.com/alcott/1977/ The Death of John
Using the Archetypal Myth Criticism of Animus - male aspect - an inner masculine part of the female personality or a woman's image of a man.

When you have completed your re-reading of your selected story and decided which literary theory to apply, compose no fewer than 500 words analyzing your selected story to illustrate the critical theory you find most helpful to understanding the chosen fiction.

You should make sure to highlight the theory’s main points in your first paragraph and show how that theory relates to your selected story.

Do not summarize the short story, but, rather, focus on how the theory you choose to work with helps explain one of the story’s themes.

EXAMPLES: Explain how your selected story reflects/illustrates:

•the archetype of the stoic nurse/soldier and to what end/meaning. .
•how a story reveals a state of mind, and to what end/meaning. (psychoanalysis). .
•how a story (A) implies a reader or (B) engages in a transaction with YOU as reader, discussing what experiences you bring to your illustration of what you feel the story reveals to you and analyzing how the text produces a response in you as a reader, i.e. makes meaning (Reader-Response).

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