Kate Chopin 's The Story Of An Hour

Her first reaction to the news was intense grief as illustrate by “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. ” This shows that she was upset to lose her husband; then after she thought about it she realizes she was free.

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’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.

Looking at the early and late 19th century paintings, one can see that majority of them showed women and children in their respective roles. Motherhood was revered and something to be honored and commemorated. The women were seen only in the roles of wives, mothers and caretakers and society considered this their appropriate place. Women who were single were termed as 'spinsters ' and were not given the same status in society as married women. In the story of an hour, the author, Kate Chopin describes the emotions of a woman who is married and tied down to this oath for the rest of her life. The author uses the ways of the society during that time to construct a story that accurately reflects the feelings of majority of women of that

One of the main elements of literature in a short story is the setting. The setting is the location and time where the story takes place. Knowing the location and literature era of where a story was written can change how the characters' act or react and how the reader will perceive the story. Kate Chopin uses the location of St. Louis, Missouri during the 1960s and her personal experiences with the death of her husband to share the ironic story of a married couple, Louise and Brently Mallard. The significance of the setting in The Story of an Hour determines how the reader will understand the actions and dialog of the characters, using the literature era, social norms of the 1906s and the location.

The Story of an Hour was in the time period of the 1800s, when women couldn't own property in the state that Mrs. Mallard was in. Mrs. Mallard was married, during this time the husband has more authority, is granted more power, and had more legal status than the woman. This wasn't fair to me because a woman can do just as much as a man can do. A woman should have just as much right to own what she wants and it should be equated between a woman and man, just like it should be with different races. Double standards are still happening now in the year of 2018, and it's not as bad as it was years ago, but people still have the mindset of a woman not being able to do something and a man can.

Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour was first published in 1894 (The Story of An Hour). The main theme of this story is oppression and loss of freedom for people, especially when they are married. In the Era this story was written marriage bound a couple together in a union that could not be undone except through death. The oppression happens to both women and men. This theme is demonstrated many times throughout the story. Chopin keeps us in Mrs. Mallard’s head through the entire duration of the story, letting us listen to her thoughts. Chopin uses character actions and imagery to further illustrate the emotions that Mrs. Mallard is feeling.

In The Story of an Hour the phrase “the joy that kills” ends the story in such a dramatic way. This phrase gives everyone that reads this story a different idea of what is meant by the “the joy that kills.” There are two different meanings that I gain from the interpretation of this phrase. Within the story the wife thought that her husband was dead so she was sad. Though she was sad, she began to think of what his death meant to her own life. With her husband being dead it meant that she could have her own freedom instead of living under his shadow. At the end of the story, the husband walked through the door and she died from “the joy that kills”. The first interpretation I grasped was not the literal meaning, which she was so happy to see

Kate Chopin’s "The Story of an Hour" written in 1984 is a story of a woman who, through the erroneously reported death of her husband, experienced true freedom. Both tragic and ironic, the story deals with the boundaries imposed on women by society in the nineteenth century. The author Kate Chopin, like the character in her story, had first-hand experience with the male-dominated society of that time and had experienced the death of her husband at a young age. The similarity between Kate Chopin and her heroine can only leave us to wonder how much of this story is fiction and how much is personal experience.

In the short story, “Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin writes about a woman with heart

The short story, “The Story of an Hour,” written by Kate Chopin, is about a lady with a heart problem named Mrs. Mallard. In the story, Mrs. Mallard’s sister, Josephine, and her husband’s friend, Richard, have to break the news that her husband has just been killed in a train accident. After Mrs. Mallard has the news broken to her, she felt sad and abandoned. Then Mrs. Mallard starts to feel something she hadn’t felt in a while, freedom. She begins to feel a conflict with herself, as this feeling creeps up to her.

The loss of a loved one should bring about an overwhelming feeling of loneliness and depression. In The Story of an Hour, written by Kate Chopin in 1894, the protagonist, Louise Mallard, has to deal with the apparent death of her husband Brently. Brently Mallard is suspected to have died in an accident near a railroad, but the information about his death is false. Due to the lack of technology, his family is misinformed about him and the story follows Louise Mallard in her final moments. After thinking about her future without Brently, Louise is startled by his reappearance and the shock causes her to die of heart disease. Her death is foreshadowed earlier in the story when the author characterizes Louise as “afflicted with a heart trouble” (Chopin). One would infer that when a couple reaches the highest stage of a relationship (marriage) that their connection and bond has become too powerful to be questioned. Although in some instances this theory may be true, one can never be too sure about the emotions and feelings of others even if marriage is a binding factor. Kate Chopin uses symbols and characterization within The Story of an Hour to demonstrate the uncertainty in relationships. Symbols in The Story of an Hour bring meaning and understand to the enriched short story. Louise locked herself in her room after the news of her husband and as she look out the window “she could see....the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.” (Chopin). The new spring

She wept immediately “with wild abandonment” upon hearing of her husband’s deathly accident. This tells the audience that she truly is sad for her husband’s passing. The life she has had to this point was good. It wasn’t a bad marriage or even abusive. Her sister is also sad. After she has done weeping and gotten to the point of being exhausted she asks to be excused to go to her room.

The purpose of my essay reviewing the short story called “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is to show how the main character, Mrs. Mallard, ranged through many emotions driven by the presumption of her husbands’ death, and the actions that followed. I have also included my assessment of how parts of the story are impacted by the time period of the story, written in the late nineteenth century, and first published in 1894.