Rhetorical Analysis Of The Story Of An Hour

The short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate O’Flaherty Chopin is about a young woman who is told of her husband’s death and how, in one hour, her life was changed forever. Kate’s life was in some ways similar to that of Mrs. Mallard’s, I believe her true feelings were reflected in her many writings.

Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of An Hour,” emotionally illustrates the hour in which a young woman with a heart condition finds out her husband has been killed in a mining accident. In the beginning, she grieves over the loss of her husband, but she soon becomes relieved and joyous when she realizes that she is now free. However, her husband returns after having been far from the mines for the day and her heart problems return and she dies. Kate Chopin was an early feminist author and was well acquainted with death after losing many siblings as a child, her husband (who left her a large amount of debt), and her mother with whom she was very close. As a means of therapy, Chopin took up writing and her ideas about feminism and death are very clear. In “The Story of An Hour,” Chopin uses multiple symbols and an allusion to a Greek god to illustrate and support the idea that male oppression harms the souls and lives of women.

Setting in a story can create certain moods, influence the way we feel about a character, and change the reader's perceptions. “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin is a short story about a woman named Mrs. Mallard, who learns of her husband’s death. This tragic news causes a range of emotions and internal conflict for the main character. The century, season, and room, in which the story takes place, prepares readers for the overflowing emotions and gives clarity to the character’s frame of mind. Kate Chopin uses the setting to help set the structure of the story.

I chose to do my analysis on the short story, “The Story Of An Hour”. The themes I see in this story is the quest for identity/coming of age, romantic/love, birth, and death. It is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard. She was an elderly lady and had a heart complications. Her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards had to break the news to her that her husband, Brently Mallard, has been killed in a railroad disaster. Mrs. Mallard was sorrowful and sobbed in her sisters’ arms. After her grieving process, she wanted to be alone, so she went to her room and locked herself in. As she sat in the window, she seem to be calmer and accepted her husband’s death. She was not distressed of what had happened. She began to say the words “free” and her heart

The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin is the tragic story of a woman whose newfound position as a widow gives her strength. She develops a sense of freedom as she embraces her husband's death as an opportunity to establish her own identity. The tragedy is when her newfound identity gets stripped away as the appearance of her husband reveals that he is still alive. The disappointment from this tragedy kills her with a heart attack symbolizing the many conflicts that she faced throughout the story. The conflicts the character faces within herself and society show that the social norms for women were suppressing to their strength and individuality as human beings.

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.

This story can be considered a satire because the person which was the narrator, never wanted to hear it in the first place. Also, as wheeler goes on with elaborate explanations and descriptions, he cannot help but find humor picturing the narrator squirming in his seat and to leave the story before it is finished.

In the short passage “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is about a women name, Mrs Mallard and what she went through in an hour. One Characteristic about Mrs. Mallard is that she is Emotional in the story. First, the passage says,”She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms”, this says that she is an emotional character because before this she found out that her husband died in a rail disaster. Second, the passage says ,”she went away to her room”, this says that the character is emotional due to that she wanted time to herself to cool off.Third, the passage says ,”Free! Body and soul free!”, this says that the character has emotionally by being sad then happy really fast. In the passage Mrs.Mallard is Emotional.

In “The Story of an Hour” (1894), Kate Chopin presents a woman in the last hour of her life and the emotional and psychological changes that occur upon hearing of her husbands’ death. Chopin sends the protagonist, Mrs. Mallard, on a roller coaster of emotional up’s and down’s, and self-actualizing psychological hairpin turns, which is all set in motion by the news of her husband’s death. This extreme “joy ride” comes to an abrupt and ultimately final halt for Mrs. Mallard when she sees her husband walk through the door unscathed. Chopin ends her short story ambiguously with the death of Mrs. Mallard, imploring her reader to determine the true cause of her death.

In the article, “Emotions in The Story of An Hour”, the author says her main claim in the first paragraph when she says “In ‘The Story of an Hour’(1894), Kate Chopin focuses on a late nineteenth-century American woman's dramatic hour of awakening into selfhood, which enables her to live the last moments of her life with an acute consciousness of life's immeasurable beauty”. The article is about how life was for women when this story was written. When the story was written, women's husband's had control over them, and when Mrs. Mallards husband dies, she now sees what he kept her from seeing.

In the short story "The Story of an Hour" Kate Chopin, the author, presents the reader with an obscure view of marriage. Chopin's main character, Mrs. Louise Mallard, experiences the excitement of freedom instead of the devastation of loneliness after she receives the news of her husband's death. Mrs. Mallard disturbingly finds out that Brently, her husband is still alive. She know knew that her only chance at freedom is gone. The disappointment instantly kills Mrs. Mallard. Published in the late 1800s, the overbearing nature of marriage presented in "The Story of an Hour" may very well reflect, but not restricted to, that era.

What literary device would best be used to describe immense sorrow and grief? The Story of an Hour is a short story about a wife who has heart problems that was grieving for her dead husband and finds out he is not dead and dies from happiness. In the short story The Story of an Hour, The author uses the three literary devices; imagery, metaphor, and personifications to illustrate the wife’s grieving and her happiness.

Creating a powerful fictional story that has your reader wanting to read the story over again in order to experience the suspense they felt the first time reading it is not an easy task. Many authors have their own style of writing short fictional stories but Kate Chopin, the author of “The Story of an Hour” blends a poetic style of writing together with irony built from her own emotional experiences to show us a situation we need to be aware of. Through the use of her poetic writing style together with structural and stylistic techniques, Chopin unfolds an impactful ironic piece of writing while at the same time using her essay as an anecdote in order to shine a light on a problem that occurs in married relationships.

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 and happiness. 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. 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.

"The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin was originally published in 1894, the story documents the reaction of Mrs. Mallard learning of her husband’s death. This is a short story and take place over about an hour of time. The scene takes place within the Mallard’s home with only a few characters involved. Wives in the 1900’s were nearly legally bound to their husbands’ influence and standing. She begins to realize that she will have the freedom as a widow and control her life how she wants.