Kate Chopin's Story Of An Hour

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”.

In Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour," there is much hatred. The first hatred detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of the death of her husband, Mr. Mallard. Before Louise's reaction is revealed, Chopin turns to how the widow feels by describing the world according to her outlook of it after the bad news. Louise is said to "not hear the story as many women have heard the same." Rather, she accepts it and goes to her room to be alone. Now the person reading starts to see the world through Louise's eyes, a world full of new life.

In Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour" the author portrays patriarchal oppression in the institution of marriage by telling the story of one fateful hour in the life of a married woman. Analyzing the work through feminist criticism, one can see the implications of masculine discourse.

In Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” she makes it clear that someone can feel both happy and sad at the end of a relationship. This story was in the course of a house after a woman who was told by her sister that her husband had died in a railroad disaster. After she was told of her husband’s dead she had “Wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms” (2) but after this she went to her bedroom and began to whisper “free, free, free!” (10) Under her breath. Her sister came back to her bedroom, thinking she was going to make herself ill and asked her to open the door. When she opened the door she did with a “feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of victory.” (18) There are many

This story takes place in the late nineteen century, somewhere between 1880 and 1900, decades where the equality between women and men was not so equal. During this time the fight for women right was already started, but far from over. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is in my opinion a raw and sad short story. The type of story that truly express the feeling of the 19th century woman in America. One of the reason I really enjoy this story is because it is brave, because Chopin dared to confront an issue in a society where the women is nothing more than nothing. This short story can be interpreted in different ways, but in my opinion in order to understand Mrs. Millard, one must travel back to this two decades and understand her place in

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard who got some shocking news which changes her independence in life. At first glance it may look as if Mrs. Mallard is devastated by the news she receives, but there is more to it. She thinks about what life will be like from that day forward. But in the end, life doesn’t work like she thought it would. Mrs. Mallard has a internal conflict between her desire to be independent and society’s role for women, which doesn’t allow the independence she desires.

Women are no stranger to a socially constrained lifestyle and society, especially in the late 1800’s. Women were believed to live a certain way, fulfill certain roles and duties in the household, and to be extremely fragile and weak. This type of culture still exists today but not to the extreme that it once was. Kate Chopin, however, not afraid speak out against the implications of society breaks free of the social norms of the 1800’s through her strong female characters. Specifically, in her short story, The Story of an Hour, Chopin captures quite the roller coaster of an hour in the life of Mrs. Louise Mallard, who receives the news of her husband 's apparent death. After receiving the news, it only takes a few moments of grief until Louise realizes she is no longer shackled to her husband in marriage and is now a free, independent woman. In her short story, The Story of an Hour, Chopin addresses many issues pertaining to feminism, such as a the expression of a woman’s independence and unique identity, distinct from that of her husband’s all through her main character Louise.

In her short story, “The Story of an Hour” (1894), Kate Chopin uses situational irony to pomp that marriage doesn’t always mean living a happy life with one’s significant other by showing Mrs. Mallard’s internal conflict about her freedom away from her late husband. Unfortunately, when Mrs. Mallard learned of her husband’s death, she “wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms” then left to a room to grieve in solidarity. Without a doubt, Mrs. Mallard was affected by the news of her husband’s death, as she was sitting “quite motionless” in a room to herself. However, in the next moment, “there was a dull stare in her eyes” that didn’t indicate melancholy, but rather an “intelligent thought” that never would have arisen,

Chopin explores the stereotypical female role within her short story. She uses Mrs. Sommers' characteristics and actions in order to do this. Women are looked to as the keepers of the house that care for everyone before themselves. This is shown in the beginning of the story when Mrs. Sommers gets the fifteen dollars. The first thing that she thinks about buying are new clothes and things for her kids. She thinks, "The vision of her little brood looking fresh and dainty and new for once in their lives excited her and made her restless and wakeful with anticipation" (Chopin, 1). In, society this is what is expected of women, they put their kids before themselves. Her mindset changed when she saw and felt the pair of silk stockings. She was asked

In the short story The Story of an Hour, Chopin opens with her main character Mrs. Mallard and tells the reader a significant fact about this character. Right away the reader can tell the point of view is third person omniscient, which will end up being a key element of this story. Chopin sets the story in one place, the main characters house, but she opens it up by giving descriptions of the sky. In this story, the reader is told about a woman who finds out her husband is dead. Because the author tells us Mrs. Mallard has a heart trouble in the first line, it is expected that something later in the story will have something to do with this. It is then found out after reading, because of the descriptive and detailed style of writing, that this

The short story I chose is titled The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin. It was published in 1894 as The Dream of an Hour, and shortly republished in 1895 under the current title.

The “best” short story that I chose was The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin. I chose this story because its development of the main character and her fatal flaw was well meshed with the plot and its dramatic ironic ending that left the reader saying, “What the heck just happened?” (Chopin, 2012, p. 115). This story was not something I normally would have read but I found myself rereading the last page two more times because of the dramatically ironic ending. The setting took place in the main character’s home and was unremarkable.

The setting contains two components which is location and atmosphere. The Story of an Hour, was written in 1891. The story doesn’t mention the name of the town but it clearly states it took place at Mrs. Mallard’s house. As a reader, the setting of the story helped me understand the mood and the emotions Mrs. Mallard experienced. The story describes the atmosphere that surrounded the character after hearing about her husband’s death. The story tells me that it was a spring time and it rained. Moreover, the sky was blue with clouds. Birds were chirping and someone close to her house was singing. The significant details in this story made the setting alive. Throughout the story, I was able to visualize the Mrs. Mallards surroundings and the

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, shows a negative view on marriage for women by expressing a character that is ecstatic when her husband passes away after a traumatic railroad accident. In the story "The story of an hour, Richards and Josephine must tell Louise Mallard that her husband passed away in a traumatic railroad accident. Due to her heart trouble, Richards and Josephine have to break it to her very easily so she does not have heart attack. Instead of Louise being upset about him passing she becomes tremendously excited about all the freedom she now has, but everyone in the story thinks she is deeply upset. After a few minutes they hear a knock on the door and turn to find out, Mr. Mallard was alive. Louise with sadness and despair falls to the floor and dies.

Back in 1894, the American writer Kate Chopin wrote the short-story "The Story of an Hour". Chopin, born O'Flaherty, wasn't renowned as a writer during her time, but she has achieved recognition in the 20th century especially with her 1899 novel "The Awakening". Her stories about strong women have really been paid attention to in relation to this century's sexual liberation debate.