In The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

The main idea of this story is she wanted to be free to live her own life so badly that she

Due America’s legal, social, and economic situation, women who have children do need support from public policy to combine employment and family responsibilities. Public policy contributes to maintaining inequalities by instating policies that are more favorable to a dominant group or groups in society (p. 232). Race and class are also key components of public policy. Public policy instructs social laws in order to maintain inequality, such as promoting reproductive labor in order to oppress workingwomen. Reproductive labor refers to all of the work women do in the household (p. 257). Assisting women who work and have family obligations through the support of public policy is important because not only it would produce hardworking, law-abiding

Often fact and fiction intermix in stories because writer’s base their stories of real life experiences and feelings. Kate Chopin largely based her stories off of her own life. Kate Chopin spent her childhood years in an alternative and matriarchal Louisiana town with a family that was unconventional. She challenged her nineteenth century sexist society and used her own life to put strength and feminism into her stories like “The Storm”, “Desiree’s Baby” and of course “The Story of an Hour”. She lived with her mother, grandmother and great grandmother who were all widows. She was one of three sisters but the other two died very young. Her father Thomas O’Flaherty was killed in a train wreck in 1855. She was married by June 1870 to Oscar Chopin but in 1882 he died unexpectedly from a fever. Then 15 years later her mother dies as well (According to Jasdomin Rolento, Pace University, May 5, 2008). She had been around death for a large sum of her life and this largely impacted her stories like “The Story of an Hour”, “The Storm” and “Desiree’s Baby”.

Theme is the main idea of a text that we come up with after reading a fictional story. For example, the story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by author Rudyard Kipling, is a story with the main idea or theme that “evil is punished while good is rewarded”. In addition, I am certain that this is the theme because Nagaina, the antagonist, and the other cobras were evil and they got killed which proves “evil is punished” while Rikki-Tikki, the protagonist, was good and he was “rewarded” by winning all of his battles with the cobras. In contrast, some people might say that the theme “accepting challenges brings good results” is right but both Rikki-Tikki, a mongoose, and the cobras “accepted their challenges” when only Rikki got “positive results” by winning all his battles. The cobras died which is how they got a “negative result”. Proving that this can’t be the complete theme.

Theme within a story is the subject of the composition. With every story theme is vital, it sets up the story for the readers and is often referred to as the ¨ heart of the story¨. Theme can also be viewed as the transformation within the character of the protagonist prior to their journey. Theme has the power to change a good story to a compelling one. It draws a connection between the reader and character giving readers something to feel concern for and root for. Universal themes are themes that can apply to any story regardless of cultural differences.

People have different reactions to divergent situations; it really depends what they are going through. In the narrative Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin it talks about a woman who has heart issues and receives the news of her husband getting killed in an incident. Mrs. Mallard doesn’t know how to react to the news; later on her husband shows up in her door and she gets killed. What could have caused her to die in an instant without an explanation? In the narrative Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin's expresses in her writing that, even if what was desired wasn’t there, then contentment will sometimes appear; the author uses dialogue, setting and imagery in order to convey the theme by describing what had caused her loss of life.

The Story of an Hour is a great portrayal of how many women felt during the 1870s. It is a serious representation of how difficult it was to get divorced in that time. During this short story a women by the name of Louise Mallard rejoices at the news of her husband’s death and then unfortunately, due to her excitement, she dies. To many this may seem uncanny and one might question why she was overjoyed by that upsetting news however she was justified in feeling the way she felt. Within the 1870’s it was rather challenging to be a divorced, single women with no spouse to support her. Releasing oneself from marriage was usually not an option if you were female. In this story Mrs. Mallard states numerous times how she felt free, and her body and soul were free. To be in this mind set after hearing her husband had passed it is reason to believe her marriage was not the in the best shape. She certainly felt trapped within their marriage and this justifies her reaction.

In the short story, The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, the main character, Mrs. Mallard, undergoes a radical spiritual transformation while dealing with the loss of her domineering husband after a railroad accident. From Chopin’s writing, it is gathered that Louise lacks character development up until the news of her husband’s death. Consequently freed from her identity as “Mrs. Mallard” and transitioning into her independent persona, “Louise,” her release from her oppressive marriage was short-lived as she realized that her husband was in fact, alive. In the end, Louise dies when she concludes that she no longer wishes to live life as a powerless individual, which demonstrate Louise’s self-liberation, and the “blooming” of her personality. Louise’s new freedom of her “body and soul” (279) supplies her with the realization that she is unwilling to continue stifling her individuality.

The working woman, immoral, unfeminine and objects of petty, negligentful mothers (Jones, 2006). Women not treated as equal, treated as if they were a joke, not serious workers like their male counterpart. Family responsibilities of cooking, cleaning, and making babies may be in the distant future but the mark it leaves carries into the next generation. Equal rights, driving, voting, education and holding jobs are some of the steps forward the twentieth century bring, but not without the heartache of the past. A journey of women, the history of her past, and the hopes of her future.

Finally, after a lead of gender roles took an impact, I began to notice a type of independence the women had. In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Louise struggled to find her own type of independence, which resulted in her losing her own life. After learning that her husband was killed in a accident, Louise felt a type of relief, knowing she did not have to live up

Like many people who haven’t studied literature, if someone asked me what the theme of a story was, I would have given a synopsis of the story detailing the actions and characters in it. As I have come to learn, theme is much more than a distilled retelling of a story. Theme gives a story a deeper meaning. The theme focuses the story and is the behind the scenes force that propels the story forward. In other words it gives the story purpose and shape. “Theme will attempt to hold all the elements of your story

In the story “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, we read about a woman named Louise Mallard, who is informed her husband was in a train wreck. At the end of the story we are told she died of joy when she sees her husband standing well and alive at the door. However, one can make their own assumptions as to what really caused Louise to pass. The moment Louise heard of her husband’s death, she became overwhelmed with emotions which led her to crying into her sister’s arms. She later went into her room, where she would find herself consuming her mind with all kinds of feelings. Another thing that we read in the story is how Louise begins to consider his death a sense of freedom. A prime example of Louise realizing she is gaining freedom was when

Often there is this perception even today that males are the breadwinners for the family—why is it that females, still today, cannot be considered breadwinners? According to Pew Research, equal pay comes down to reasons why women leave the work force temporarily—reduction of hours to take care of family, time taken off to have a baby, leaving their job, or even saying no to a promotion (Patten, 2015). The biggest category of the aforementioned is the reduction of hours. Why is it only women reduce their hours to take care of family? Where is the unified efforts of the mother and father to equally take care of family? This author believes that if you first look towards that question, you can slowly over time dispel the still existent notion that women aren’t

Kate Chopin’s story “The Story of an Hour” focuses on a married woman who does not find happiness in her marriage. When she hears of her husband’s death, the woman does not grieve for long before relishing the idea of freedom. Chopin’s story is an example of realism because it describes a life that is not controlled by extreme forces. Her story is about a married nineteenth-century woman with no “startling accomplishments or immense abilities” (1271). Chopin stays true to reality and depicts a life that seems as though it could happen to any person. Frank Norris comments that realism is the “smaller details of every-day life, things that are likely to happen between lunch and supper, small passions, restricted emotions…” (1741). “A Story

For one climatic hour of Louise’s life, she truly tastes joy. For one hour of emotion, she does