Delusions In this essay I will discuss both the similarities and contrast between the two stories, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Verb to Kill” by Luisa Valenzuela. I will be analyzing the subject of delusions between the two stories. After reading both stories numerous times and carefully reviewing it, I strongly feel with good reason that Luisa Valenzuela story, “The Verb to Kill” serves as a stronger model for the subject of delusions. Throughout this essay, I will explain my reasoning behind my judgment, using examples from the story to backup my statements and conclusions. In “The Story of an Hour” Louise Mallard is the women who is experiencing a delusion. The delusion began when her sister Josephine announced that her husband Brently had died in an accident. Rather than feeling the pain of having lost a loved one, Louise expressed an unexpected array of emotions. She felt a joyous feeling of independence granted by the death of her husband. For example, Louise said under her breath: “free, free, free!” She firmly believes that her husband is dead and she is free to live for herself. Louise’s bizarre delusions stem from the self-realization that she …show more content…
In “The Story of an Hour” it’s more of a dreamy delusion; all her thoughts are focus how free she’ll be now that her husband is died. For example, “She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.” Louise once hoped life would be short, she now prays for a long, happy life by being independence. In “The Verb to Kill” it’s more of a paranoid delusion. They have these thoughts about this stranger, that has never even talk to them but yet they say he wants them. By saying “Surprise us on our last day here and catch us while we’re still pure so’s to get more please.” That being said “Verb to Kill” is the
The short story The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, describes a woman conflicted with the death of her husband and her outlook on life after his assumed passing. Through the story, Chopin shows the transformation of Mrs. Mallard from that of an ordinary wife to that of a woman cherishing her newfound freedom. Although Mrs. Mallard is deeply saddened at the news of her husband’s passing, she finally begins to feel a sense of relief and witnesses what it means for her as a woman. Just as she begins to fully cherish her life, she is horrified at the sight of her “dead” husband’s return and proceeds to perish. Through the use of imagery and syntax, Chopin illustrates the interchanging psychoanalytic perspective of an individual following a personal loss.
48-55, ProQuest, http://nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/ 226924170?accountid=3442. Literary critic Mark Cunningham presents personal views and ideas about the character, Louise Mallard, in “The Story of an Hour.” He presents the argument that Louise did not pass away after seeing her husband, Brently Mallard, arrive home. Rather he argues she passed away from the emotional strain brought on by the awakening moments of freedom experienced soon after learning of her loss. Cunningham also explains
"The Story of an Hour" is the story of women live and her marriage. " Louise Mallard suffered from a heart condition, her sister Josephine gently and carefully gives her the news of her husband died. " The main character tells information that her husband is dead, and after a hard time she is overjoyed with a sense of freedom, and when she thought to open the door and leave her husband forever opens the door, and she has depression, she dies of a heart attack. " Mr.Richards, a close friend of her husband," Brently Mallard, and the first to learn of the disastrous railroad mishap that asserted Mallard life had gone with Josephine to help diminish what they know will be a savage blow. The story tells about life, and how women behaved around mid-1800's.
“ The Story Of An Hour” portrayed woman as often weak, useless, and honestly does not have a say in the marriage. Louise Mallard took her husband’s “death” as a chance to be free, independent and her own woman, she would no longer have a man controlling her, and a man would not bring her down. She said over and over under her breathe “free, free, free”. There would be no one to put a burden on her. The thought of freedom, independence, and being her own woman, made Lousie Mallard happy
In the first writing, “The story of an Hour” is about Louise Mallard a woman in the 19’s centuries that suffer from a heart condition. One day she is informed that her husband died in a train accident, at first she gets sad and start crying while she walks to her room to be alone. She starts thinking of how life is going to be without her husband and begins to say
Moreover, "The Story of an Hour", shows that Louise felt her husband's domination through the "powerful will bending her" (14), later she is in "this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being." (15). This last statement indicates this newborn contention in Louise, made only possible by Mr. Mallard's death. In Mr. Mallard's death, Louise finds herself being able to assert herself in unimaginable ways; Mrs. Mallard is no longer limited to the confines of her marriage. Ultimately, all of this new brazenness and freedom is dependent
In “The Story of an Hour” there are various ironic and symbolic references that can be found, all of them having a significant impact on Louise Mallard’s exotic view of her husband’s death. Louise Mallard is first labeled as a woman with heart problems, more of a soft hearted woman who is incapable to take in heavy issues lightly. This comes into play when the people that are going to tell her worry on how she is going to take the news of her husband’s death. This accusation also comes into play when she is proclaimed of dying by the joy that kills, on the contrary it was only an overwhelming of her dreams being crushed by her husband actually being alive.
By the repetition of the words as a reader we come to understand the meaning behind the story and how Louise actually felt towards her husband. The theme of the story is mainly the forbidden joy of independence. Due to that the story was written years ago where women were very dependent to their husbands Louise actual feelings of joy and happiness towards her husband death was forbidden by society during this
In "The Story of an Hour," I can relate to so many different things that go on in this short tragic story. After reading the story I almost felt like Louise Mallard and I were living the same life with different events and a different outcome. Everything about the two of us comes down to being always misunderstood and just wanting to be free.
Everyone who reads a story will interpret things slightly different than the person who reads it before or after him or her. This idea plays out with most every story, book, song, and movie. These interpretations create conflict and allow people to discuss different ideas and opinions. Without this conflict of thought there is no one devoting time to debate the true meaning of a text. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” tells about a woman who is informed of her husbands death, processes the emotions, and becomes content with this new status as an individual person – losing all the expectations that society expected her to live by within a marriage. This story however is written in a way that the reader has the final interpretation of the text. There are many different interpretations on not only the reason for the main character’s death, but also on the overwhelming emotions that she faces.
In ‘The story of an hour’, it is set in a house in the 1890s, a time when women had little to no rights. Louise was the typical housewife married to the working man. She was to keep the house in order and have dinner ready when the man got home. This confinement and role Louise had to play gives her “heart trouble”. At first when Mr. Mallard is reported dead, Louise weeps suddenly then goes to her room. She spends the next several minutes looking at how free she is now that her husband is gone. The setting of the story affects the context greatly. If it had taken place in the 21st century, Louise might not
In “The Story of an Hour” we are taken through a journey. The journey is the thoughts and emotions going through Mrs. Mallards (Louise) mind. The journey only takes an hour, so everything moves at a fast pace. Louise seemed to process the news of her husband’s death without an initial element of disbelief and shock. She goes right into the reaction of grieving for her husband. She quickly begins to feel other emotions. At first she does not understand them. The journey is a way that Louise comes to her final thoughts of freedom. She looks into the future and looks forward to living a long life on her own terms.
In the story "The Story From An Hour," talks about a wealthy family dealing with the loss of a loved one and how to deal with the repercussions of death. It discusses how people deal with death differently. I feel one of the main focus points in this story is on the character, Louise Mallard. How the author portrays her as a loving housewife, who unfortunately has a heart condition Josephine her sister was concerned how she was going to handle telling the news about Brantly’s death.
In “The Story of an Hour” the main character Louise Mallard has just found out that her husband, Brently Mallard, died in a train accident. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, (527) which means that she didn’t immediately think that her life was over and she could not go on without her husband, she thought of the rest of her life with open arms and excitement. She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. (527) she was looking forward to a whole new life, a life of her own. Of course she was sad and knew that she would mourn her husband, be sad when she saw him lying in the casket at his funeral. And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. (528) She is saying she did love him but not most of the time. While she was alone in her room staring out the window a feeling came over her that she was unsure of at first, but when she let herself go she realized it was freedom, triumph, and victory. She kept whispering to herself “free, body and soul free!”(528) She and her sister walked down the stairs together to find her husband, Brently, walking through the front door, she died of a heart attack as soon as she saw him.
“Story of an Hour” uses Louise Mallard’s repressed life as a wife to elucidate how repression can lead to bottled up depression. Louise Mallard understands the “right” way for women to behave, but her internal thoughts and feelings are anything but correct. This is first illustrated by the initial reaction to her husband’s death, where she cries instead of feeling numb, as she suspects other women would do. The death of her husband acts as a catalyst to alleviate her depression that rooted in her marriage. In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Louise’s heart problem, which shows the extent to which she believes her marriage has trapped her. The author of the story gives a vague description of Mallard’s heart condition just simply calling it a “heart problem” (Choplin 452). This vague description shows how her “heart problem” is both physical and