Death In The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

In the above article, Selina Jamil discusses about the emotions in The Story of an Hour written by Kate Chopin. Showing Mrs. Mallard’s torpid life, in which nothing happens, until the news that her husband, Mr. Brently Mallard, died in a railroad accident. After this moment she starts to think that her life will change and will be more interesting, as she is free and she can do everything she desires. Her husband will be no longer there to give her orders what to do and she will experience freedom, something she has not felt before. Mrs. Mallard feels released from her husbands “powerful will” and she would not have to follow his commands anymore. Even after Mr. Mallard’s death the lady still couldn’t realize that she is no longer his “slave”,

The short piece by Kate Chopin, ‘The Story of an Hour’, is about a sickly wife who finds out the news of her husband’s death, which seem to make her happy that she is liberated from the husband’s controlling ways, even though she is supposed to be really sad and in grief. The story is about a protagonist, who undergoes certain changes throughout the story’s continuity. The irony of the story is how the author ends the book. We expect that since the woman, Mrs. Mallard is supposed to be happy all through, the twist with which the book ends with is that of her dying. Her happiness killed her.

“The Story of an hour” by Kate Chopin is about an a woman named Ms.Mallard. She has basically been controlled by men her whole life. In the story her husband dies and she starts to look at everything in a different way and starts to think about the future and the things she is gonna do now that her husband is not controlling her. Nothing was really wrong with there marriage Ms. Mallard was just never able to speak her mind because she was a woman. She felt like her husband was holding her back from life and she had to reach out and go her own way.

IN "The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin tells the tale of a woman who learns of her husband's untimely death, seeks solitude in which she proceeds to reflect upon this incident and its implications, has a life-altering/-giving epiphany, and proceeds to have all of the fresh hope and elation that had accompanied this experience dashed when her supposedly dead husband appears alive and well at her door, thereby inducing her sudden death. Read in isolation, it seems as if this is merely a detailed account of one woman's reaction to the death of her husband and, on a basic and concrete level, it is. However, to grasp Chopin's intended themes and to gain a true appreciation and

“The Story of an hour” a complex piece of literature by Kate Chopin, has various interpretations to it. This story has, one definite interpretation, which is the following: life has to go on no matter what is happened in the past. In this story, Chopin implies Ms. Mallard’s husband has been very cruel to her in her lifetime. However, she never lets her husband get in the way, finally he dies, and, she thinks she is free although she really is not.

Most stories have more than one conflict, some bigger than others, but all important as a story progressives to the very moment everything clicks and comes together. After that point, the story starts to wind down, lose ends are tied, and the reader gets the satisfying feeling of a happy ending. The Story of an Hour is not your typical short story; but is similar to others in the way that conflicts are the leading force behind a short story. This story starts with Mrs. Mallard finding out any wife’s worst news and realizing it is the best news she has ever heard. Within the short hour of the announcement, the news that was going to save her, ended up killing her. The internal conflicts Mrs. Mallard faces in Chopin’s The Story of an Hour are subtle, but lead to a resolution that makes the reader question if they believe the author or not.

First, Chopin explores situational irony in “The Story of an Hour” by calling attention to Mrs. Mallard’s heart problems. At the beginning of the story, Chopin pens that “…Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (547). Knowing of Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition, her family takes great care to tenderly deliver the news of her husband’s death due to the railroad exit. Her family fears the tragic news will send Mrs. Mallard into a frenzy, which would intensify her heart condition. Ironically, the news of her husband’s death does not affect her heart condition, but the news that he is still alive causes the heart attack that kills her.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” narrates a wife’s discovery of her husband’s death and her fatal reaction to this false revelation. Josephine and Richards take caution in telling Louise Mallard about the news of Mr. Mallard’s death because she has a frail heart. In lament of her husband’s death, she storms into her room while expressing her great grief. As she looks out the window of her bedroom, she sees a scenic spring day and is engulfed with a wave of joy in realization that she is free from her husband. In the midst of her newfound happiness, Brently Mallard appears at the frontdoor unscathed. When she sees him, Louise’s heart fails her and she dies. Chopin conveys that the deprivation of freedom and can cause a subconscious imprisonment

The short story “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin is about a lady named Mrs.Mallard who has a health issue that effects her life dramatically. When she is told her husband has passed away due to an accident things change. This story shows how it is difficult to deal with things within yourself which proves some people grieve differently. Mrs. Mallard has a desire to be independent which is the opposite of how society views things.

Kate Chopin employs the tool of irony in "The Story of an Hour" to carefully convey the problem inherent in women's unequal role in marital relationships. Chopin develops a careful plot in order to demonstrate this idea, one not socially acceptable at the end of the 19th century, and unfortunately, a concept that still does not appreciate widespread acceptance today, 100 years later as we near the end of the 20th century. Louise Mallard's death, foreshadowed in the initial line "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble" takes on quite a different meaning when the plot twists and the context of her sudden death is presented unexpectedly, not upon her shock

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin involves a woman, Louise Mallard, with heart disease discovering news of her husband 's death in a train accident. At the end of the story, as Mrs. Mallard is walking down the steps with Josephine and Mr. Mallard walks through the door. Mrs. Mallard died as a result of stress on her heart. The narrator reports, “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-- of joy that kills” (181). Chopin makes this quote the last line of the play; this leaves readers with the question of what actually killed Mrs. Mallard.The doctors think that Mrs. Mallard died because of the joy of seeing her husband again. However, Mrs. Mallard dies because of the shock of seeing her husband and sadness from realizing that the joy she felt was over. So in reality, Mrs. Mallard died of heart disease—of sorrow that kills. Some reasons Mrs. Mallard felt so much sorrow when she saw Mr. Mallard are the time period, her loveless marriage, and her being robbed of the joy she felt.

In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, we go through a long term change in Mrs. Mallard's life. The main character, Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour” has traveled on a emotional train ride because of her husband's death. As the story goes on, we begin to see her go through different mood changes and feelings about the tragedy. Mrs. Mallard starts out by showing a lack of courage and confidence, but through the death of her loved one, sorrow turns into happiness, and and she gets the sense of freedom, and because of this Mrs. Mallard turns into a stronger and more of a self-governing woman.

In “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin introduces the reader to an unspoken understanding/expression of matrimony as well as a symbolic meaning of death. The story begins and ends with irony in an anastrophe form. The symbolic meaning of death is not illustrated by the narrator as a pilgrimage to ones grave but rather represent the death of an old way of life. The news of the main characters husband’s death evokes the protagonist character to reflect on her loss of life taken/stolen by the bonds of matrimony. The events of her reflection set the tone of the story. Which reveals a woman’s inner conflict of emotions associated with death, as well as her suppressed feelings of constraints/confinements within her marriage. The symbolism of her

Death is a not something that usually brings exhilaration. To be happy about someone close to you dying would seem bizarre. However, in the story, “The story of an Hour,” Louise Mallard experiences a sense of joy when she finds out the news of her husband’s death. The statement “Free! Body and soul free” (Chopin 129), conveys that Louise is experiencing enjoyment in the death of her husband and feels that she is now free from the binding chains of marriage. Instead of being the typical stay at home wife that cleans the house and has food prepared for her hardworking husband, she can now do as she pleases with her life thanks to her husband’s demise.

    When I first read Kate Chopin's "The Story Of An Hour", my instinctual response was to sympathize with the character of Mrs. Mallard.  This seemed to me to have been intended by the author because the story follows her emotional path from the original shock upon hearing of her husband's supposed death to her gradual acceptance of the joy she feels in anticipating her new freedom to the irony of her own sudden death.  However, one fact cannot be overlooked when judging my personal reaction to this piece. Because this story's theme is basically an issue of what a woman has the right to expect from her life, the fact that I am a woman living in a society where freedom and independence are