Story Of An Hour By Kate Choplin

Witnessing or acknowledging the death of a loved one is usually detrimental to a person and can cause extreme grief. The emotions of the person’s loved one’s death could be expressed in either distress or perhaps the opposite. Most of the time, we see the loss of a close friend, family member, spouse, child, as very sad. Kate Chopin was a known as an author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana; where she grew up in. One of her short stories is “The Story of an Hour,” where a woman learns that her husband has been involved in a tragic accident which makes her grieve, but not in the way you would think she would. Louise Mallard, is the main character of the story, she suffers from a heart condition, which means that if she is startled,

In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard is happy her husband is dead even though others believe she is upset. Family has trouble breaking the bad news of her husbands death to her due to Mrs. Mallards bad heart. “ Knowing that Mrs. Mallard is afflicted with heart trouble, great

Kate Choplin’s “The Story of an Hour” is about a woman, Mrs. Mallard, is told of her husband’s death by her sister, Joesphine. It was common knowledge that she had a faint heart. The family feared the sad news of her husband’s passing might cause too much stress for her. At first, Mrs. Mallard cries almost uncontrollably, as most wives who had just received this kind of news would react. Mrs. Mallard slips quietly to the privacy of her room. She wants to be alone. As she sits in her room, she begins to realize that she is at long last free to live her life without having to consider someone else’s feelings. She begins to see her future enthralled in happiness. She has been in her room for a long

Mallard in the Story of an Hour is told her husband has been in an accident and passed away. The woman loved her husband only sometimes and chose to grieve in an expected and justified manner. The story portray’s that Mr. Mallard had oppressed Mrs. Mallard and made it so that she could not show her real personality and self worth. Once alone in her room she let the news sink in and became excited to start the new chapter in her life saying “..she would live for herself”. Mrs. Mallard finally comes out of the room to find out her husband is alive. The heartbreak and shock of what can never be caused Mrs. Mallard to have a heart attack. Mrs. Mallard dreams of “…no powerful will bending hers…” was crushed by her passing away and sadly never getting her

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, is a short story of overwhelming events that all lead up to Louise Mallard’s death. Louise Mallard, who has heart problems, is told by her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richard that her husband has died in a railroad accident only to soon find out that her husband is alive and did not have any involvement in the accident. Josephine and Richard both know of Louise’s heart trouble so, “great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible” the news of Mr. Mallard’s death (1). Louise spent no time being in denial with the news; she immediately sobbed into her sister’s arms. Shortly after, Louise leaves her sister and Richard to be alone with her feelings in her room.

With the death of her husband came her ultimate freedom. This marks a very important and surprising shift in the tone. The dismal and gloomy tone shifts to this sense of liberation. Louise continuously mutters the words “free, free, free!” and her pulse quickens.

Freedom is what she thinks about through her husband’s death until she discovers he is still alive and standing in the doorway of their house. The shock of seeing him proves too much for her heart and kills her. After reading “ The

When Mrs. Mallard received news of her husband’s death she left to mourn. She starts to have thoughts of freedom. She thinks “There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself”, which suggests that society and her husband oppressed her. Her freedom meant that she would be able to live for herself and do what she wanted. This way of thinking goes against views of women during the

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a story of the feeling of losing someone with a different twist. Mrs. Mallard, a woman who has heart trouble, receives the news that her husband died in a “railroad disaster”, by her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend, a newspaper worker, named Richard (Chopin 307). She begins to let it occur to her that her husband is dead and accept the thought of it. Chopin uses the theme of closure to express the feelings of Mrs. Mallard in coping with the thought of the death of her husband. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin uses the theme of closure to tell the story because it explains to the readers the feelings that Mrs. Mallard has when she receives the news that her husband is dead; the story starts with the feeling of grief, then closure, and then the over joy that Mrs. Mallard is feeling.

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin expresses Ms. Mallard’s feelings towards her husband’s death in an appalling train accident. Due to her bad heart, her sister Josephine had to be the bearer of bad news and approach his death gently to her. According to the quote, “ But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought”, it lets us know that she is quite different than other women and that there is conniving plan she has developed in her mind (31). Ironically, the horrific news brings happiness to her because of her new ability to be free. We notice of her changing personality and her broadened outlook as she sits in her room staring out of the window. As she is dreaming of the lively dreams, we see her become more independent as a woman and actually want to better herself to make her happy. It seems that Ms. Mallard has waited for this moment from her husband’s existence so that she can discover who she really is. Ms. Mallard finds unexpected freedom by her reaction to her husband’s death, the reaction to him actually being alive, and in the marriage among Mr. and Ms. Mallard.

Mrs. Mallard had a different reaction then most. She had a bigger conflict she had to hide. She was “Free, free, free.” Going up into her bed room alone, Mrs. Mallard stared out the window whispering that to herself, “free.” She didn't want any one else to hear her. In the society all woman did was cook,

The story of an Hour” by Katie Chopin, describes the series of emotions Mrs. Mallard undergo. The emotions she felt were not depress or sad, they were something else.

In The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin describes an older lady by the name of Mrs. Mallard, who just received information on the tragedy that has struck her husband. She was very distraught when she discovered that her husband had passed away earlier that day; she started sobbing uncontrollably,

The Story of an Hour” is about Mrs.Mallard, a married woman with a serious heart condition. Mrs.Mallard lives a life no woman would wish of, she is married but not happy to be married. She has no freedom and doesn’t life life like she should and could. She was given the news that her husband had been involved in an accident and instead of being upset she is more joyful that she now can live her own life and be free.

In the story “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, we read about a woman named Louise Mallard, who is informed her husband was in a train wreck. At the end of the story we are told she died of joy when she sees her husband standing well and alive at the door. However, one can make their own assumptions as to what really caused Louise to pass. The moment Louise heard of her husband’s death, she became overwhelmed with emotions which led her to crying into her sister’s arms. She later went into her room, where she would find herself consuming her mind with all kinds of feelings. Another thing that we read in the story is how Louise begins to consider his death a sense of freedom. A prime example of Louise realizing she is gaining freedom was when