Louise Mallard In The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

“The Story of an Hour,” written by Kate Chopin, is a short story featuring a woman with a feeble heart, and the story centers on Louise Mallard and her reactions to her husband’s “death.” Throughout “The Story of an Hour,” Louise Mallard experiences various emotions that leave her wondering how she truly feels about the news of her husband’s death. Before leaving her room and after hours of genuine depression, Louise Mallard realizes that her husband’s death may have granted her something extremely valuable: independence. Chopin created the story in an era where men predominantly controlled the lives of women. In “The Story of an Hour,” Louise Mallard is expelled from the chains of her husband’s control. Although they had a content, loving

Louise Mallard began to grief her husband’s death in Josephine’s arm. When alone in the room the sobbing had stopped. She then reveals great joy as Louise realizes

Written in 1894, “The Story of an Hour” 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 (Internet). 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.

Mrs.Mallard's rather uncommon reaction to the news of Mr.Brently Mallard's death logically foreshadows the complete revelation of her suppressed longing for freedom. Being alone in her room "When the storm of grief" is over, she experiences "something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name." Finally, she recognizes the freedom she has desired for a long time and it overcomes her sorrow: "Free! Body and soul free! She kept whispering." In her soul, the dark clouds are disappearing because she is illuminated. All the memories of her husband are now of the past. She is living in the present. At this point, she is no longer "Mrs.Mallard." She is Louise and is ready to welcome a new horizon of freedom : "Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own." Overwhelmed with a new sense of herself, she feels as if she was "a goddess of Victory." In just a brief hour, she learns what it is like to be her own person, to live for herself without the force of her husband's will.

In "The Story of an Hour" Kate Chopin introduces us to a woman living in the oppressive times of the nineteenth century, Louise Mallard. She appears to be an old lady with a bad heart who is blindly living in a bad marriage, like everyone else at the time. However, a closer look at Louise reveals a more complex woman: a spiritual and fragile, young woman who is aware of her incarcerating marriage.

Louise Mallard is the protagonist of The Story of an Hour. The entire story is about her preservation. Chopin portrays Mrs. Mallard as a woman who is in deep suffering. She is not only suffering from a marriage she is not happy with, but she is also suffering from her medical condition. As if she had not suffered enough, she also puts a threat to her own life. We see this when Josephine is knocking on her door while she refuses to open it (Chopin). What is unknown to Josephine however is that her sister is in fact not suffering but savoring the moment.

In “The Story of an Hour” we see Mrs. Louise Mallard receives news of the death of her husband. The

Traditionally, women have been known as the less dominant sex. They have been stereotyped as being only housewives and bearers of the children. Many interesting characters in literature are conceived from the tension women have faced with men. This tension is derived from men; society, in general; and within a woman herself. Kate Chopin‘s short story, “The Story of an Hour”, focus on a woman’s dilemma near the turn of the 19th century. Contradicting the “normal” or sad assumption of death, “The Story of an Hour” illustrates the significance of death representing freedom. The Story narrates about an hour of Louise Mallard’s life, as she tries to understand, and deal with her feelings of her husbands death.

Louise Mallard represents a self-image of a fragile woman, who’s strength, passion or any kind of emotions she has remained deeply hidden behind layers of suppression. If she ever breaks free of confinement, she will find no other society willing to take her in and Mrs. Mallard will have gained freedom just to find out that she has no future ahead. She is only freed when her husband passes away. This overwhelming joy she feels hearing the news

In addition, Louise will mourn her husband’s death, but she is now joyed that she doesn’t have to go through anymore pain from Mr. Mallard. After she realizes that she’s free, she starts planning her new future. Ms. Mallard loved her husband, but she believed that independence

“The Story of an Hour” is a short story written by Kate Chopin, a pioneer feminist before the feminist movement commenced. In the story, a woman named Louise Mallard who has heart problems is informed of her husband’s death. As a result, she begins feeling a type of freedom she never felt before while being married. At the end of the story, Louise’s husband, who never actually died, came back to their house. After seeing him she “died of heart disease—of joy that kills.”

Ashley Fouquet Dr. Bellah English 1302-010 3/10/2015 Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”: Marriage That Kills Marriage is a strange, complicated, chaotic, and wonderful partnership that we choose to partake in. Marriage and the roles within a marriage, husband and wife, have changed drastically within the last fifty years; therefore they have taken a one hundred and eighty degree turn from marriages in the nineteenth century. Upon learning that her husband did not, in fact, die in a train wreck, Louise Mallard has a sudden heart attack. Having had a glimpse at the possibility of a life of her own, her husband’s survival ironically caused her death. “The Story of an Hour” is a late nineteenth century feministic shout-out, and a twisted look into the minds of the oppressed women in the late eighteen hundreds.

In the story, The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, there was a lady named Louise Mallard. Mr. Richard and Louise’s sister, Josephine, got the news that Louise’s husband was in a terrible railroad accident. Josephine and Mr. Richard had to break the news to Louise gently, I figured because of her heart condition. After she cried, Louise locked herself in a room where she then stopped feeling sad. She then started to feel free and exited. She feels this way because she looks forward to all of those years of freedom that lie ahead of her. She realizes that she will grieve the husband that she loved only sometimes but I believe she is also looking forward to all the years of freedom she has to herself. Josephine thinks Louise is going to make herself

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard who has unrealistic thoughts. She is young, beautiful, with a fair, calm face whose lines bespoke repression and even strength. She thrives for freedom. She receives news that her husband has died in a railroad accident. After she finds out, she goes off all by herself to have some time to think. She catches herself looking out the window at all of the beautiful life. She notices that everything is so beautiful and free, then she realizes that she is free.”She could see the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares.” This quote

One of the forerunners for woman’s rights in modern literature, known through most literary circles, is Kate Chopin. However, she also wrote in a time where it was merely a dream for a woman to be full liberated from man, only obtainable upon the death of either the man or the women herself. “The Story of an Hour” is a short story about a woman (Mrs. Mallard) who finds out that her husband has passed away. She has a brief time filled with grief and enlightenment, only to find out that her husband was never dead. Chopin takes a moment to integrate that Mrs. Mallard is perceived as a weak person, not only physically but mentally, “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was