What significance does the theater have in terms of Maggie’s development through the story?

In what ways might one perceive Maggie as confined by her environment? How is Maggie’s potential confinement similar to/different from Edna’s confinement?
Why is the theater so inspiring and thought-provoking for Maggie? What significance does the theater have in terms of Maggie’s development through the story?
While both Maggie and “The Yellow Wall-paper” reveal environmental effects, the point-of-view also plays a major role. In what way(s) does the first-person, diary-like POV in “The Yellow Wall-paper” contribute to the effectiveness of the story in terms of showing us the effects of environment on the narrator?
In London’s “To Build a Fire,” we find a main character who struggles—quite literally—against nature and his environment. Does the narrator seem to have any more control over his fate than the other protagonists in the Naturalist unit? Why?/Why not?
In “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper,” Gilman explains her personal connections to the fictional short story but explains that, in “The Yellow Wall-paper,” there were “embellishments and additions to help carry out the ideal” and that she “never had hallucinations or objections to [her] mural decorations” (856). Discuss 1-2 such “embellishments” or “additions” and explain how they help to “carry out the ideal” that Gilman spells out in “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’”.

The following selections from the “Realism and Naturalism” section:
William Dean Howells, From Editor’s Study
Jack London, From What Life Means to Me
Stephen Crane
“Stephen Crane: 1871-1900” (Note: this is a biography of the author).
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Jack London
“Jack London: 1876-1916” (Note: this is a biography of the author).
“To Build a Fire”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 1860-1935” (Note: this is a biography of the author).
“The Yellow Wall-paper”
“Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’”?

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