The Depiction of the Husband, Charles Faraday, in Kate Chopin’s Story “A Point at Issue”: Reading Against the Grain

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Overview: 10 pages – MLA style for formatting. The essay should contain compelling and COGENT THESIS, logical organization, effective engagements with primary and secondary sources, ample quotations as supporting evidence, and accurate grammar and mechanics; in short: proofread, proofread, proofread, please! Topic: The paper examines Kate Chopin’s short story “A Point at Issue” with a view to analyze and appreciate her depiction of the husband, Charles Faraday, and the effective and significant role he plays in the process of his wife’s social advancement. The paper should be divided as follows: Part One: (2-3 pages) should present a review of relevant literature, and will further discuss the theoretical framework of the study through providing the various possible interpretations of the chosen text. This part will pave the way for examining the above-mentioned text, using “against the grain” methodology. Part Two: (6-7 pages) focuses on discussing, using “against the grain” methodology, Charles Faraday in Kate Chopin’s “A Point at Issue”, and how he faithfully and willingly stood by his wife in her darkest moments. To this end, you will analyze such intrinsic elements of the text as time, setting, events sequence, dialogue and narrative, and most importantly characterization. In other words, you will attempt to note all the different interpretations of the intrinsic structures, and how such interpretations might be seen to contradict each other. Simply put, the results of this analysis are meant to broaden our understanding of the scope of Chopin’s fiction in tackling relations between the sexes, and further deepen the scholarly view of her male characters. Part Three: (2-3 pages) analyzes the ideologies from which the literary work is constructed. For this part, you will draw on ideas about a “crisis of masculinity,” which reiterates a radical bifurcation of humanity between men and women. It links masculinity to such stereotyped qualities as aggression, competition, violence, and power, and affirms that women and feminists, although inferior, are dangerous counterparts to men. In this stage of analyzing the text, you shall demonstrate the various ways in which ideologies shape our own view of the world. Most importantly, the paper will be evaluated for originality, integrity, readability and coherence