Kate Chopin 's The Story Of An Hour

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.

Mrs. Louise Mallard, the main character from Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” is not the housewife that those around her assume. Although she loves her husband, she is shocked and overwhelmed by the sense of new-found freedom that accompanies her husband’s alleged death. Mrs. Mallard represents the patriarchal control over women of her time, as well as the postulation that a woman could not maintain her independence. Chopin uses Louise Mallard’s reactions to her husband’s supposed death, her subsequent untimely death, and the speculations of those around her to personify the dependent nature that was imposed on women of the turn-of-the-century.

A woman's role in society is ever-changing. For many year's women were subjected to strict societal norms, ideals and were defined by the male figures in their lives. Gender roles and relations still make themselves apparent in society's perpetuating inequality, whether through traditional beliefs adapted over the years or societal norms embedded into all aspects of life, including literature. As time passes, women have striven to set their own standards and are now able to stand unapologetically tall in society. Many different factors have aided in allowing women to rebel and evolve against conformity, one significant element being literature. More specifically, literature that breaks barriers for women in allowing their portrayal to defy degrading roles and literature that brings the expectations of women in society to light.

In the short story, “The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin addresses the sometimes sticky truths the correlate between love, marriage, and female independence with her multidimensional characterization of Louise Mallard in her final hour of life. After finding out that her husband was killed in a train wreck, Mrs. Mallard faces the clashing emotions of grief for her husband’s death and the exhilarating joy she sees for her future of freedom. The latter emotion eventually takes control of her, emotionally and physically. However the story takes a climactic turn. The news that her husband was not killed in the accident destroys Louise’s ideas about her new life of freedom and ironically leads to a devastating ending out of what appears to be a good turn of events. In the end, it is Mr. Mallard who is free of his wife, Louise, although we do not know if he endured the same clashing emotions.

Although The Story of an Hour is a literary fiction based on an inner conflict of the emotions of a protagonist, it holds a sense of a commercial fiction with a “what happens next “feel to it. It is a story of the last hour of Mrs. Louise Mallard and her many emotions concerning loss, gain, and the freedom she so joyously awaited.

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a short story about an hour in time. In that hour we find out that the main character Louise Mallard’s husband has been killed in a railroad disaster. The husband Brently Mallard’s friend is the one who finds the news but realizes that Louise needs to be told with great delicacy due to her heart condition. Upon hearing the news Louise like most grieves immediately. But as she contemplates what has happen and her future she realizes she if finally free the confines of marriage. Even though she loved her husband most of the time she looks at this disaster not as a terrible tragedy but as a new lease on life. Then the unthinkable happens, her husband walks through the door. Instead of relinquishing

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

When Mrs. Mallard received the news that Mr. Mallard was gone, readers expected her to be depressed and miserable. This was not the case in “The Story of an Hour”. Of course she was a bit

In the short story, “The Story of an Hour”, written by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard is afflicted with an internal conflict of guilt because of the feeling of happiness she feels when she finds out that she is finally free to do as she desires do to her husband’s death. She has the feeling of guilt do to her happiness that she can finally do what she wants, but she knows that society does’t have a roll in the things she wants. Mrs. Mallard has an internal conflict between the desire to be independent and society’s role for women.

The word “freedom” can have many different meanings for someone in this world. Being free can mean from slavery, spiritually and etc. The word is something that has to change the way you look at life, and see yourself be happy for all the freedom you have in the world.

“The Story of an Hour” is a short story by Kate Chopin. It begins with the main character Louise Mallard hearing the news of her husband Brently Mallard’s death. He died as a result of a railroad disaster. Kate Chopin mentioned in the beginning of the story that Louise was afflicted with a heart trouble. Her sister Josephine knowing about Louise’s disease tried to be extra careful telling the news of Brentley’s death.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour and is considered short and easier of the two to comprehend. The use of multiple emotions and literary devices to communicate such emotions plays a vital role in writing. The dominant themes of the stories are the marital role of women and the marital role of men. The words used by the authors often reflect the desire that runs through individual’s minds in search for peace and comfort. Further, they demonstrate that men and women have separate and distinct roles in a marital union.

The story of an hour written by Kate Chopin is base in the late 1800s. About a women who soon finds out that her husband has died which leaves her sad and in grief. But then realize that she will be free of her marriage and that she can live her on life. Not long after everything that was going on her husband comes home and she’s in shock. After hearing that her husband was dead she’s dies.

In “the story of an hour” The author (Kate Chopin) conveys an idea that she is not necessarily unhappy when her husband's death as there are many hints towards the fact that she feels free that her husband is now out of her life and because of the multiple tone switches if creates an emotional roller coaster which creates suspense. The feelings she expresses when she is greeted with the news of her husband's death is as anyone would expect, sadness, but really she is feeling free and released from her husband. This is shown when she is feeling a “montrouis joy” also when she is repeating “free!” under her breath. But when she was given the news the story conveys a sad and somber tone but, after she thinks the tone changes to the opposite.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” tales a short story of the marital relationship to display and comment on marriage and her attitude towards marital relationships, wives are imprisoned by their husbands and the ring on their fourth finger. Marriage was viewed as being imprisoned, with only one means of escape: death. Chopin begins her story with introducing Louise as Mrs. Mallard, yet her sister is acknowledged as Josephine, which emphasizes Mrs. Mallard’s married identity, she’s no longer her own person but rather her husband’s property. In fact, Mrs. Mallard isn’t recognized as Louise until she released from her recently deceased husband. Wives are viewed as property and enslaved, captured. Men or husbands are they’re own individuals,