The Flying Troutmans VS. After You

1. By Daniel Youssefi

2. Legend: Purple: After You Green: The Flying Troutmans Red: Psychoanalytical Theory Blue: Gender Theory

3. Gender Theory

4. Patriarchy: Promoting Gender Roles

5. Essentialism: Lowing the power that women have

6. The doctors believe that when Hattie is struggling with anxiety it is just a phase that she would grow up past.

7. "Our own family doctor said there was nothing wrong with Min that a little maturity wouldn’t straighten out, She needed to grow up, basically, was his theory."

8. Min starts off with being stressed out because of her ex-boyfriend leaving her behind

9. Lifes determained by a young man who lived near their cottage

10. Caused by men

11. What Gender oppression is seen throughout the story but never clarified?

12. Man considered the fork in the road that the woman are have memories about.

13. Moments where Min or Hattie are portrayed as lower to men/man and are trying to over come that.

14. Psychoanalytical Theory

15. Harsh Memories Returning

16. Family issues

17. Father Issues

18. Jean brings Adele back to their cottage and old memories intrude

19. Min travels back to her home to confront her father who abandoned her

20. Min denies the fact that her father did not pass away.

21. “Our father died in a drowning accident in Acapulco when Min and I were kids. He drowned trying to save us.”

22. A memory play without memories; the characters live simultaneously in the past and present.

23. What emotions and behavior reveal about the characters psychological states?

24. Very unstable, and already encountering a defense mechanism

25. What types of anxiety must these characters encounter?