Question

Although the late 1800s was the heyday of realism and naturalism, many writers continued to use dreams and fantasy as important elements in their work. Discuss Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Jewett’s “A White Heron,” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper,” focusing on how the use of dream, vision, or altered perception affects the realism of the fiction.

Answer 1

With the use of dream and fantasy, the fact of realism has been affected because the readers go into the world of dreams by the text and lose their touch with the reality.

Explanation:

Many a times, the authors and the writers make use of dream, fantasy as a major portion of their writings instead of writing for the fiction and writing about the reality.

With using dream and fantasy many authors fell that the readers of those text go into the world of dream as shown in the text and lose their touch with the real world. They do not want to understand the reality and the facts which is happening in their life and surrounding actually but want to live in their world of fantasy.