Analyzing the Similarities between 'The Story of an Hour' and 'Distant View of a Minaret'

When the woman in The Story of an Hour is told the news of her husband’s death, she is treated as a fragile as a flower, like there is no way she is strong enough to take this type of news. There are many ways to take her reaction of sobbing, but it seems that she does this because she is sad. But when it’s considered in a different life it seems she does this because her husband’s death opens up a world of opportunity to her. As a housewife in the 1800s she was expected to stay home, cook, clean, raise kids and basically pamper her husband. Even if she loved

Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour” and Gail Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman” are similar pieces of literary work. Both stories offer a revealing glimpse of extremely unhappy marriages due to being forced into stereotypical roles. Both stories portray women, who are trapped in their marriages and trapped in their socially expected matriarchal characters. They are identified by their role as a wife and mother.

In the past many decades the definition of what a marriage means changed dramatically in some areas. For the author of both stories, Kate Chopin, she wanted the reader to get something out of the story. She likes to explore all types of themes in her stories such as, racism, the roles of women, and adultery. With these themes and messages she struggled to have most of her stories published. In many of her stories she passed along these messages through the manner of a marriage. In her short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree 's Baby” she showed just how different marriages could be as well as how similar they can be. Chopin portrays the lives of the main characters, Louise Mallard from “The Story of An Hour” and Desiree Aubigny

The story of an hour takes place in the past where marriage was seen as a requirement to everyone, mostly women. Women had less freedom to choose who they got to marry or even have a voice in the marriage itself. Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour takes place in this era where the main character is arranged into a marriage and has no input in it. These views are seen throughout the protagonist’s thoughts and feelings as she experiences and griefs the passing of her

Women are taught from a young age that marriage is the end all be all in happiness, in the short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin and the drama “Poof!” by Lynn Nottage, we learn that it is not always the case. Mrs. Mallard from “The Story of an Hour” and Loureen from “Poof!” are different characteristically, story-wise, and time-wise, but share a similar plight. Two women tied down to men whom they no longer love and a life they no longer feel is theirs. Unlike widows in happy marriages Loureen and Mrs., Mallard discover newfound freedom in their respective husband’s deaths. Both stories explore stereotypical housewives who serve their husbands with un-stereotypical reactions to their husband’s deaths.

A life as a wife and/or a mother, is usually appreciated and is a happy life as well. A relationship between two people should consist of joy, commitment, responsibility, and most importantly love. For the two main characters in both stories ( “The Story of An Hour”, and “A Sorrowful Woman” ) this was not the case. The stories go against societies view with marriage roles and happiness.

It is a very difficult task for women to live a content life while in a despondent marriage. Though it has been done, it is simply no easy task. In the short stories "Story of an hour", and "Astronomers Wife" Kate Chopin and Kay Boyle both suggests to their readers that a woman needs a man to connect with her physically to be happy. The two stories both share the thesis that women are being held back by their husbands and there is plenty of evidence to prove this. With Chopin's story taking place in the 50's, and Boyle's story taking place at the turn of the century, they encounter parallel situations with a time difference of almost 50 years.

In old customs and traditions, women played the role as the submissive partners in marriage. It was often viewed that in marriage, women would forfeit their self identity and gain new attributes and habits that would serve their men. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an hour,” the main character, Mrs. Mallard starts to feel free after she receives the news of her husband’s death. She later discovers that he is actually alive.

The Story of an hour written by Kate Chopin is the best short-story because theme, characters, point of view, and style show the attitude that some women felt or may feel regarding marriage being repressive in their life and a longing for freedom. The story opens with Mrs. Mallard’s sister Josephine informing her that her husband has been killed. Because of Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition Josephine and Richards, who is a friend of the family and there to help deliver the news, are concerned with how the news will affect Mrs. Mallard. When Mrs. Mallard hears the news to is over taken with grief and locks herself in her room. While in her room she imagines herself in her new life that is no longer bogged down by her duties as a wife. When

"The Story of An Hour,” by Kate Chopin, uses heart disease and irony to convey the idea of how marriages out of societal pressure instead of love can destroy you, literally as Ms. Mallard dies of sorrow upon seeing her husband return.

As i was reading “ The Story of an Hour”, I realized it was very in depth. I found the story to be deep because love and marriage could be a powerful thing. But, could also be easily dismissed. A range of emotions: feeling of grief, lost of partnership, independence, freedom.

Every society has gender roles. Our modern society is bending those gender roles as we are moving towards gender equality. In The Story Of An Hour, We get a very clear picture as to what those gender roles would have been in 1894. People were married young. It wasn't so much about love like it is today. It was more about financial security and also it was just what people did. You get married have kids, clean the house, watch your kids have kids and then you punch your ticket. This story dives deep into the mind of a young woman who’s husband just died. It goes through her thoughts and how she interpret them. Mrs. Millard, in the face of her husband's death, found happiness through new opportunity.

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a tale of civilization. In this story, death leads to an awakening sense of pleasure, freedom and happiness within Louise Mallard. This story took place around the time when husbands spent hours away from home working, and the wife would stay home as a housewife. Divorce was impossible and independence is a dream that will not come true for more than a century. Louise wasn’t in an abusive marriage, however she wasn’t happy at all and she had lack of freedom. She feels free after the death of her husband because she is no longer burdened with love and attachment. “The Story of an Hour” discloses revelation that occurs within the main character.

A bird would always want to fly even from its golden cage; so does a person confined to a house and a loveless marriage. In “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard is a woman trapped in her own golden cage. Throughout the story, the author, Kate Chopin, shows the true colors of matrimony during that time and what it meant in women’s lives. Women were the only possessions attained after marriage, designated to do house labors and take care of a husband and children. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin illustrates that marriage is another manifestation of women’s abdication of liberty once they say “I do”.

Written in 1894 The Story of an Hour reads similar to a manifesto, echoing the authors beliefs on feminism and marriage. The extent to which the main character, Louise Mallard feels marriage has oppressed her is indicated by the heart trouble addressed at the beginning of the story. Her husband Brently was not a brute or cruel man, he did not abuse her, for his face “had never looked save with love upon