Mrs Mallard's Marriage

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin tells the life story of a woman named Mrs. Mallard a woman who suffers from heart weakness and is feeling incarcerated in a marriage in which there is no love from her to her partner, she is not in love with her husband at all. Ms. Mallard is a woman who doesn't like the concept of being tied down to someone for the rest of their life's. She is the type who enjoys her own company and from time to time dating but never being married to anyone. In this story we never get to meet her husband other than by what she tells us herself about him because he is on a work trip. Further into the story she finds out that her husband might have passed away because of a train accident in which he was in.

The “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a short story about a woman who struggles with the oppression she experiences at the hands of her husband and her secret desire for independence. Louise Mallard didn’t realize how upset she was in her marriage until she found out about her husband’s death. She grieves for only a short period of time before mentally creating a new life for herself. This new life she envisions help her to see the silver lining in a tragic event. Chopin uses symbolism throughout the story to portray the theme of a quest for identity.

When first reading Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," one may not typically be surprised at its ending, write it off as one of those creepy "back from the dead" horror stories and forget about it. There is more to this story than simply horror. The author is making a very strong, however subtle, statement towards humanity and women's rights. Through subtle symbolism, Kate Chopin shows how marriage is more like a confining role of servitude rather than a loving partnership.

Mrs. Mallard is described as weak and “Afflicted with a heart trouble.” The statement: “…great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death,” show how the narrator has a tone of tenderness, talking about Mrs. Mallard as if she were a fragile child, even later saying, “[she shook], as a child who had cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.” Throughout this whole scene, the language is riddled with foreboding adjectives and phrases, perhaps foreshadowing her later demise. When she learns of her husband’s death, she weeps “with sudden, wild abandonment,” only going to her room when “the storm of grief had passed.” Then once in her room she sat in an armchair “pressed down by physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.” This statement gives the physical exhaustion the same qualities one would normally give to a ghost, furthering the foreboding nature of the piece.

The Story of an Hour was written by Kate Chopin. This is a short story that was first published in the year 1894; the motifs and ideas presented within its brief form resonates a strong message that is recognized even today. On the surface, the story is told within a few pages and covers a brief one hour period of time, and at first glance the work seems deceptively simple. It is the story of Louise Mallard, a woman who has a history of coronary disease, who learns from her sister that her husband was recently killed in a train accident. Instead of experiencing the normal state of shock, “she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment,” and immediately retires to her room alone.

The Story of an hour written by Kate Chopin is the best short-story because theme, characters, point of view, and style show the attitude that some women felt or may feel regarding marriage being repressive in their life and a longing for freedom. The story opens with Mrs. Mallard’s sister Josephine informing her that her husband has been killed. Because of Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition Josephine and Richards, who is a friend of the family and there to help deliver the news, are concerned with how the news will affect Mrs. Mallard. When Mrs. Mallard hears the news to is over taken with grief and locks herself in her room. While in her room she imagines herself in her new life that is no longer bogged down by her duties as a wife. When

In The Story of An Hour, Chopin tells the story of a wife named Louise Mallard, who is informed of her husband's death in a train accident. Most of the story follows the turmoil after Louise is informed of her husband's passing and the misplaced happiness Mrs Mallard feels. Louise feels happy and liberated with the news of her husband's death because she did not completely love him.

“The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin is a story about Louise Mallard, who finds out that her husband is potentially dead. When Louise is given the news she weeps. When she stops crying she goes to her room alone and sits staring out the window. She realizes the freedom that comes with her husband's death and plans out her long life in freedom. After her moment of realization in her room, someone is at the door, it is her husband. In her response of her husband being alive, Louise she dies at that moment. Chopin uses setting and third person omniscient point of view to show women's inherent oppression in marriage.

Chopin, in The Story of an Hour, uses an ironical twist of events to express emotions and the perverse nature of marriage life. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is based on Louise Mallard, a lady who learns of the news of her husband’s death from her sister Josephine, and succumbs to the news. Richards, a friend to her husband, learns of his death from an office where he saw Brently's (Louise's husband) name in the list of the people killed in a railroad accident. On receiving the news, Louise goes to her room in solitude.

Kate Chopin (1894) wrote a short story, “The Story of An Hour”. The author illustrate the theme as showing feeling and emotions in a divorce that leads to freedom. Louise Mallard, protagonist, feel free and realse rather than feeling isolated and glum. When she learns about her husband death. Meanwhile, a shocking experience occur when Louise’s husband, Bentley Mallard (antagonist) is still alive.

Mallard seems to go back and forth about how she feels about her husband’s death. She admitted that she would still feel grief when she finally saw her husband’s dead body, but her true feelings won out as she reasoned with herself that they were well founded. “What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!” She convinced herself that she deserved this joyous freedom.

In short, Mrs. Mallard was in an unhappy marriage which broadcasted their imperfections in their relationship. Being in an unhappy marriage can show the imperfections in your relationship you may begin to live your life for your spouse rather than yourself. This can often lead to separation and unhappiness in your marriage as well as your life. An unhappy marriage can also can prevent you from having freedom. Nevertheless, an unhappy marriage can lead to separation if one of the spouse or both spouse is unhappy and wants to move on with their life. In closing, Mrs. Mallard was living her life for Brently Mallard instead of herself. After her husband’s death, she then discovers freedom and after discovering freedom she then became eager to

Kate Chopin’s famous play, “The Story of an Hour, is an American based writer/author tells the story of an estrange marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Louise Mallard receive the horrible news of her husband’s death. This may have been a tragic event to some, yet it was a day of redemption and new life to Louise. Mrs. Louise Mallard is the main character of the story. Mrs. Mallard’s character, is described as a liberal of what is abnormal in her time. She began to plan a future without her husband. She began to envision, which was forbidden for a woman to develop self-influenced identity. Mrs. Mallard’s inner soul was crying to be released from the bondage Mr. Mallard has bestowed upon her. The character was symbolized as a reborn

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is about Louise Mallard’s reaction to her husband’s death and how she changes her feelings through the course of one hour. Mrs. Mallard suffers from heart problems. She is overwhelmed to find out her husband, Brently Mallard, is dead after a railroad accident. She finds out about the railroad accident through a telegram the newspaper office received. She gets in a depressed state and cries her eyes out, “As a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams” (Chopin 128). She also does not want any attention from anyone. “She went away to her room alone. She would have no one to follow her” (128). While alone, she thinks to herself that her husband’s death is a good

It seems that her face is telling a story, that she is keeping a lot in. What is she holding back? It is hard to know the type of marriage the Mallards had. Was Mr. Mallard good to Mrs. Mallard? If they had a good marriage, I do not think she would have had such a tremendous relief about his death.