This reminds me of “The Yellow Wallpaper” because in that story the narrator identifies with the imaginary women behind the yellow wallpaper in the nursery. Due to the fact that her husband gave her the rest cure, an ineffective cure to hysteria, her hysterical symptoms began to fester which lead to her thinking she was a different person. The image clearly shows a woman on a yellow wallpaper, which represents both the woman and the person she saw behind the wallpaper until she eventually believed she was that person.

This picture perfectly represents “A Rose for Emily.” In the story Emily’s father died and before his death, he didn’t allow Emily to have any male suitors. Therefore, after his death Emily was desperate to have that male figure in her life that would fill in the loneliness she was feeling. She found Homer as a possible suitor, but some suspected that he was gay. In the end of the story though Homer was found dead in Emily’s bed and it was evident that she had been laying down with him and enacting in necrophilia.

In “The Bluest Eye,” Pecola was convinced by society that in order to be beautiful she had to have blue eyes. This photo specifically represents the end of the story when Pecola convinced herself that she had blue eyes when in reality she didn’t. It represents the damage society can have on a little girl who just wants to be accepted and isn’t reassured by her parents that the way she looks is beautiful. At the moment in this story, Pecola was talking to the voice in her head about whether she had the bluest eyes in the world or not while displacing the problems that were going on in her reality.

This image represents the first scene in “Super-frog Saves Tokyo” where Katagiri finds a giant frog in his apartment. The frog tells him that he needs Katagiri in order to save Tokyo from an impending Earthquake caused by an angry worm. While analyzing this story through a Freudian lens, I realized that the frog represents the super- ego, Katagiri represents the ego, and the worm in the story represents the id. The id is impulse, which explains the angry worm who’s going to cause the Earthquake, Katagiri represents the compromiser between the two, and the frog represents morals, because he wants to fight the worm that wants to harm people.

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