Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

In the “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, is about pleasure of freedom and the oppression of marriage. Just like in Kate Chopin’s story, inside most marriages, even the ones that seem to be the happiest, one can be oppressed. Even though, one might seem to be happy deep inside they miss the pleasure of freedom and living life to the fullest. Just like, in this story Mrs. Mallard feels trapped and when she hears about her husband’s death she first feels distraught, but ultimately realizes that she has gained her freedom. This news leads her to an inner battle within herself, as she tries to keep those feelings from coming out. The story culminates when she dies of a heart attack, because she realizes that her husband is not dead and she would be returning to her old pointless existence. This story has many great literary elements that keep the story interesting throughout its plot, by using great foreshadowing and symbolism.

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.

In the past equality was a big issue. Man and Woman did not have the same rights. Women sick in ambitions. The story “The Story of an Hour” deals about a wife who lost her husband and is destroyed by it. All the love she has for him disappeared and first she has to find a way to handle it. After she stops crying, she finally pushes herself up, looks out the window to see the clear blue sky, which helps her to realize that she is not under her husband’s control anymore. Finally, she was released. Also in “Trifles” the wife had to handle the situation that her husband dies but in this case the wife most likely killed her husband because she could not stand anymore the fact that he treated her as a slave. Both women have to accept a big loss in their lives but they also feel a sense of freedom and relief that they are not anymore under a man’s control. Both stories deal with women who struggle under their rules of their husbands but at the end they find a way to escape and finally start to live their own life. The stories are taken place in the early 1900s and act about the old traditional gender roles which played an important role in the society. Women had to fight for their freedom and against their husbands.

"The Story of an Hour" is about a young lady, named Mrs. Mallard. The story describes of how she is heartbroken, upon hearing of her husband's death. The buddy of Mrs. Mallard's messaged this tragic news. However, Mrs. Mallard's sister was the one who told her. What happens next is a bit unusual. Mrs. Mallard goes to her room and starts to feel something new. It is, actually, a feeling of relief. Now, Mrs Mallard thinks that she has the rest of her life just for herself.

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

Imagine this: the husband you have spent a majority of your time with suddenly dies in a train crash. Everyone expects you to be devastated, to go completely insane. No one arounds you knows how to break the news that the man you love is gone. If only they knew, though, that you did not actually love him at all. This is what happened to Mrs. Mallard, the main character of ¨The Story of an Hour¨. When she found out her husband was no longer alive, she had never been more excited. She was excited to finally be free and on her own, so when she heard that he was actually unharmed, it did not sit well with her. Because the woman felt so trapped in her marriage, she died from shock and sadness by the sight of her alive husband. This surprising story deals with two types of irony: situational and dramatic, which I will be breaking down.

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.

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.

The very short piece of writing, The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin reveals the power of authenticity the bobs under the surface of every safely passing hour. In her life as well as her literary vocation, Chopin rallied against the customary decorum that was the established role of women. Living during the turn of the twentieth century, women’s liberation was still a far cry in the distance. Chopin’s writing was a heralding cry for those women who would not remain furiously quiet for much longer. The Story of an Hour reveals the force of passion for freedom that can enlighten life, but also has the power to kill.

"The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin is written using a third-person limited omniscient point of view. This point of view is used to show and manipulate Mrs. Mallard's emotions, while still being able to include events that she did not know about and would never be able to learn due to her sudden death. The omniscient narration of "The Story of An Hour" also creates a reliable narration since the storyteller is not a character and is not plagued by incorrect information due to mental illness, lies, confusion, etc. The narrator uses especially descriptive wording to illustrate the main character's emotions through out the text. For example Mrs. Mallard's initial central conflict was the grief she encountered over her husbands death. To paint

In the short story "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin, Chopin brings to life a climactic happening with the character, Louise Mallard. Louise’s sister, Josephine, and her husband’s friend, Richards, must be careful breaking the news of her husband, Brentley’s death to her. Through his death, Louise exhibits her true feelings about her husband, about herself that has been buried for so long, and gets a taste of brief freedom.