Kate Chopin's The Story Of 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’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.

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 novel about Louise Mallard accepting that her husband had recently suffered a life ending tragedy. She quickly gets over the devastating news and begins to look forward to what the future has on hold for her. When she goes downstairs to meet up with Richard she sees her husband, Brently Mallard, in the front door alive and she ends up dying.

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

“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.

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.

Kate Chopin was an American author who majored in short stories mostly in topics related to feminism. Her other works include; “Bayou Folk” of 1894, “A Night in Acadia” of 1897, and “The Storm” of 1898. She created her story entitled “The Story of an Hour” with the aim of using characterization to show how women behave, and the forces that bind marriages. Her character, Louise Mallard, depicts the true picture of both the outward reaction and the inner feelings of women in marriages. When her sister gets the news that Louise’s husband gets involved in a fatal accident and dies, she plans a friendly way of breaking the

In the novel, “The Story of An Hour”, written by Kate Chopin in 1894, she describes a woman who lets her emotions cause her own death. Chopin’s story describes how a marriage, even the most loving one, can be oppressive. She focuses on feminist issues, how relationships can be all about power. “The Story of An Hour” can be seen as a husband taking control over his wife, which leads to the emotional oppression she feels. Throughout the story, Chopin conveys multiple symbols to further on portray the wife’s oppression for her husband; the main symbols that help interpret this are freedom, confinement and happiness.

My thought or opinion about the theme of this story would be that Mrs. Mallard didn’t really love her husband and she would be happy to move on since she felt that she was free the reason I think about it like this is because when Mrs. Mallard gets the news from her sister Josephine, She was shocked when she told her about the death of her husband she went to her room and thought about what happened.

The story, “The Story of An Hour” was written by Kate Chopin. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850. She wrote several stories for kids and adults. The story took place in Mr. Louis’ and Mrs. Mallard’s home in nineteen century. The major characters of the story were Mr. Louis the husband of Mrs. Mallard, Josephine, Mrs. Mallard’s sister and Mr. Richards, Mr. Louis’ friend. The conflicts were between Mrs. Mallard and her husband Mr. Louis.

Opener- Every individual takes a diverse path when facing the loss of a loved one. Whether it is sobbing your heart out or being in a state of panic and pure shock. Controlling idea- However Louis Mallard has a different reaction to the news of her husbands passing. Plot summary- Her sister Josephine informed her that her husband has been allegedly killed in a train accident. She then locks herself in her bedroom, in misery, all alone. Sitting in a “comfortable, roomy armchair” (Chopin 1) she begins to consider what her life will be like now that her husband has passed on. The grief she feels at the beginning eventually morphs into a joy that will later be the implied collapse of her own death. Main Claim- In Kate Chopin’s acclaimed short

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin is an example of a strained romantic relationship and the quest for identity. Mrs. Mallard has a romantic yet strained love with her presumbably dead husband. It is strained because she, "had loved him--sometimes." but,"often, she had not". This is because she felt his assertion and domanice was used to control and trap her. In assuming that she was free from this, she began to see herself in the future having "all sorts of days that would be her own" and her new identity that would come with it.