Kate Chopin 's An Hour

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

Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor discusses many topics and insights that can be found in literature. Foster explains how each are used and the purposes they serve while providing numerous examples. Many of Foster’s insights can be found in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” which was written during a time in history when women were often restricted by society and marriage. The story speaks of a woman who felt freed from the burden of marriage when she thought her husband died, only to die the moment she realized he was actually alive. Foster’s insights about weather, heart disease, and flight that are evident in “The Story of An Hour” greatly influence the story’s interpretation in several ways.

Kate Chopin is known for being criticized for empowering the subject of female sexuality and independence. In Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour”, it is placed in a time where men were known as being the head of the household while women were only in charge of raising the children and caring for the home. In the 1890s, women didn’t have so much power to themselves compared to today’s society where female empowerment is frequently encouraged. Chopin’s story narrates a sequence of Mrs. Mallard’s emotions that goes within the motion of the story. As she overcomes the sudden death of her husband, her emotion of grief soon turns into the sudden feeling of freedom, later on emerging into a strong independent woman.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” was published in 1894 in Vogue, during a time when women do not have any legal rights. They have low education level and have no opportunity to work; what they can do is stay at home and manage the family. All their lives, they rely on their husband. Women at that time do not think about why they should be treated this way; they were being silenced by society. Kate Chopin uses the character Mrs. Mallard as the representative of all women who wants freedom at that time, and she criticizes the way society treats them, yet the difference of Mrs. Mallard’s values compared to society’s makes her become egotistic and her death end up not changing people’s mind of how to treat women properly.

When we think about marriage, we think it is happy moments with loved ones. It is knowing that someone has your back. Also, it is wishing you were the one having the operation or the ill. Not him. It is hard work that not all people can handle. Marriage is hard work that needs to be made from love. Wife needs to be the person that keeps the house in good look and supports her husband. As for husband he needs to be the head of the family that helps his wife to keep their marriage. Marriage is built on love, understanding and support of each other. In the marriage, it is important to keep each other happy. If the love and happiness disappear from marriage, it is hard to keep the family together. In those two short stories there is love, but

Women’s rights has been a major problem throughout history in almost every society on the planet. Even in Europe, which was considered one of the advanced societies, women were often treated as objects and prizes. They had very limited freedom, rights and voices. However, as time passed, women became fed-up with male domination and sought independence from their husbands. They managed to fight for their rights and to end gender based oppression. For example, women caused the probation to ban the consumptions of alcohol, because alcohol attributed to their husbands’ abusive behaviors. Three stories serve as great examples for how women were treated/viewed in overtime. One of those stories is the story of “An Hour”, by Kate Chopin, which shows us how shows us how women were in oppressive marriages and desired freedom. Another story called “Proof”, which was written by David Auburn, demonstrates the negative treatment of women in a male dominated work force. Finally, the story “A&P”, (written by John Updike) shows how the view of women changed through the sexual reevaluation.

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is a short yet complex story, describing Mrs Mallard’s feelings. It focuses on the unfolding emotional state of Mrs Mallard after the news of her husbands death, and has overflowing symbolism and imagery. It is an impressive literary piece that touches the readers’ feelings and mind and allows the reader to have a connection to Mrs Mallard’s emotional process. Although the story is short, it is complete with each word carrying deep sense and meaning. It is written in the 19th century, a time that had highly restrictive gender roles that forbade women to live as they saw fit. Mrs Mallard experiences something not everyone during this time has the luck to have; the happiness of freedom that the reader only

Kate Chopin is best known to focus on sensitive women and “accept passion as a legitimate subject for serious, outspoken fiction”. Most of her work makes herself known as one of the well-known feminists because most of her main characters being women. In most of the writing, the main character usually falls hopelessly in love and it ends with a tragedy. In the “The Story of the Hour,” the theme is no different causing most of her writing to go unnoticed due to the fact that her work was “revolting against tradition and authority”. These writings earn her the title of “pioneer in the amoral treatment of sexuality, of divorce, and of woman’s urge for an existential authenticity.”

The author has to choose the gender of their main character, and by Kate Chopin choosing a woman it set a completely different mood to the story rather than it being a man. The time this story was written were women were suppose to be submissive and loyal to their husbands, caring and nurturing for their children, and well-bred, catering hostesses. If a woman were to overstep such boundaries, she would be considered unladylike, scandalous, or even immoral. Society looks differently upon a person depending on their gender. Sexism develops and stereotypes are labeled. Different situations receive different judgment depending on gender. “The Story of an Hour” is a passive aggressive call out against society. “What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion...” The most impactful word throughout the story is “she” and it changes the personal depiction of the reader. Subconsciously a person can associate characteristics of people by using one word. The content and impact of individual words used throughout the story plays a tremendous role in how the story is interpreted. The specification of gender ties into the word “she” which is the most important word throughout the story. For this reason, the analysis of the specific and nitpicked vocabulary for this story was vital to the social influence and comprehension of the reality for gender differences.

When an author uses humanistic elements in his or her writing, such as emotion, those works tend to hold more meaning to the reader. Emotion can serve as the catalyst within literature in order to give the audience something to empathize upon. This technique allows the author to make a direct connection with the reader since he or she probably has an understanding of how various emotions can effect an individual; this is a consequence of being human. The broad variety of different emotions that Kate Chopin fit into “The Story of an Hour” presents the story with a perspective that is very intelligible. While some readers may not understand what it is like to live a sheltered life due to marital convention, Chopin laid out the emotional path that the protagonist takes and simplified it into individual, coherent feelings that a woman in the late nineteenth-century might have went through under these circumstances; she did an efficient job at telling the story of shock, suspense, and surprise during this poor lady’s last hour.

When Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour,” was written in 1894, Kate Chopin was living with her family in Louisiana and was a very independent woman. Throughout the world during this time, women were known to be considered their husband’s property and had to live for their husbands and not themselves. In this story, Chopin seems to explain the feelings wives had about their husbands. Based on this, the character of Mrs. Mallard may have been married to her husband but didn’t actually enjoy being with him. So, when he dies, she feels free to finally live for herself. The open window helps to express the feelings of a new life Mrs. Mallard sees in her future. Throughout Chopin’s story, the symbolic representation of the open window plays a major role in illustrating the freedom Mrs. Mallard began to feel in the story

In “The Story of an Hour”, the author Kate Chopin Presents an unusual marriage. Louise Mallard, the protagonist of this short story experiences a sense of relief and happiness when she is informed that her husband has passed away due to a train wreck. However, when she discovers that Mr. Mallard is alive she feels all chances of being free from this marriage have faded away. Learning that her husband had not passed away from the tragic train wreck that was revealed to her was so much of a disappointment it kills her. Published in the 1800’s

The Story of an Hour Over years the roles of women and their rights have drastically changed. They have been dominated, trapped and enslaved by their marriage. Womens have slowly evolved into individuals that have rights and could stand for their own. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin might be a short story, but it showed and explained how women's felt obligated to live and be with their husbands, despite the fact that they were unhappy with them.

“The story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin is an influential story about Mrs. Mallard who is given the terrible news that her husband has died in a train accident. She is overwhelmed by her spouse’s death and excuses herself, instantly hurries to her bedroom where a different side of Mrs. Mallard’s emotions are shown. Mrs. Mallard has taken on an altered viewpoint of life now. She is saddened about her spouse dying but she has something to be pleased about which is being herself. The central character, Mrs. Mallard shows opinions and feelings that can support and go against the feminist theory.

“The Story of The Hour” fully answers its title. It is a story about a woman living her last hour. Not so many things happen during that hour, but in contrast, many thoughts fly through main character’s head and a reader can form an accurate portrait of a woman’s life from these thoughts. Somebody tells her that her husband is dead. After that she dives into the whirl of thoughts regarding the impact of husband’s death on her future. Some facts or beliefs make this woman think that her husband’s death is a rather fortunate event. It all ends soon after that, when she sees her husband alive and dies. In “The Story of The Hour” Kate Chopin doubts mere foundation of a thing called “marriage” and suggests an alternative viewpoint based on early examples of a feminist movement.