Story Of An Hour Woman

In life, everyone has experienced the loss of someone they loved, and the way the greave can show their true motivations. In Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour” Louise Mallard is left without a husband but her form of grief is different than mosts.

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is a short yet complex story, describing Mrs Mallard’s feelings. It focuses on the unfolding emotional state of Mrs Mallard after the news of her husbands death, and has overflowing symbolism and imagery. It is an impressive literary piece that touches the readers’ feelings and mind and allows the reader to have a connection to Mrs Mallard’s emotional process. Although the story is short, it is complete with each word carrying deep sense and meaning. It is written in the 19th century, a time that had highly restrictive gender roles that forbade women to live as they saw fit. Mrs Mallard experiences something not everyone during this time has the luck to have; the happiness of freedom that the reader only

In Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour”, the main character, Louise Mallard, is burdened with the news of her husband's death. As the story continues, readers believe that her actions are done out of grief, but when the reading is analyzed closer it is easy to see that Mrs. Mallard was not grief-stricken at all; she was quite the opposite. By clearly basing “The Story of an Hour” in its cultural context, Kate Chopin reveals a society steeped in the oppression of women.

“The Story of an Hour” is a stark display of female rejection of the norms of society. This work, by Kate Chopin, begins with a woman going through the stages of grief for her husband’s death. For the wife, Louise Mallard, this was an awakening of a new life. This new life is cut short as the information that led her to believe this news turns our false. Kate Chopin reveals that even the desire for love is trumped by the need for freedom and independence, through her use of precise diction and syntax, and symbolism.

In “The Story of an Hour” independence is forbidden for women. In the movie “Hidden Figures” women were never noticed on what they could really do. Women had barely any independence in the 1900’s. When the women in “The Story of an Hour” and the movie “Hidden Figures” both set goals for each other on what they would do with their freedom.

Considered one of American’s foremost feminist authors, Kate Chopin addresses issues challenging to the social and gender roles of the late 1800s. She celebrates women who seek their own identity and focuses on individual journeys of self-discovery. Her short story “The Story of an Hour” has a unique structure in that it adheres to a realistic premise, yet contains a protagonist who represents idealism. Faced with the news that her husband has died, Mrs. Mallard takes ownership of her own emotions and strength to control her life. However, her emotional revelation emerges only upon her husband’s supposed death. Chopin juxtaposes physical death with emotional freedom, suggesting actions and feelings are determined by social, psychological, and emotional forces instead of individual will. In order to show the fragility of Mrs. Mallard and her idealism, Chopin creates a microcosm in Mrs. Mallard’s bedroom of solidarity; a world of freedom and choice within the bedroom and the world of deterministic forces on the other side of the door. Through the setting, Chopin explores the dichotomy between the desire to change one’s situation and the possibility to change one’s situation.

For years women have been doubted for not having good work ethic that is impactful towards society. Women were just a figure in their companions’ lives whose purpose was to take care of the home and children. The men were expected to work in society and provide for the family. In William Faulkner’s, “A Rose for Emily and Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” there are Comparisons and Contrast in the way that the authors end their stories in death; both women react differently to death: one is happy the other isn’t. This subject by subject point of view will provide and outlook on how the stories portray to the society they are living in. Nonetheless, question; why women weren’t a dependent for male duties that need to be done? Why did women

In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, a woman receives the news about her husband’s death. The protagonist is Louise Mallard, she is at home with her sister. It seems that Mrs. Mallard is never alone because of her “heart trouble”. Close relatives always try to take care and keep her safe and healthy. People know about her health condition, but no one knows what is happening in her mind and spirit, and no one knows that her “heart trouble” is not only physical but also emotional. Louise has the opportunity, for the first time in her life, of living with freedom because now the man who rules her life is gone. Louise Mallard is born again, and she starts a short but glorious moment that gives her a true life sense and liberty, but then it is ended with the presence of her husband who comes back to kill the new Louise.

“There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is the story of a woman’s reaction to the news of her husband’s passing. Mrs. Louise Mallard is a young woman most would conclude to be saddened by the passing of her husband. Yet it is in that very moment we find her true feelings.

Author Kate Chopin is famous for some of the most influential feminist stories and novels in the Western canon. “The Story of an Hour” is one such text. In this story, Chopin tackles many of the concerns that are essential to feminism, including the willpower and expression of a woman’s distinctive identity separate from the identity of her husband and the right of a woman to identify and experience her own interests. While there is an aspect of this story that is provocative, namely, that Mrs. Mallard feels excited after learning that her husband has died, the reader can empathize with Mrs. Mallard’s feelings and support her.

In the short story, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, a woman, also known as Mrs. Mallard, receives news that her husband passed away. Thus leading into her realizing that she is finally free to do everything society tells her that she shouldn’t do, she finally reached the Nirvana of happiness, until her “dead” husband walked in through the front door. Through the story she internally fought between the feelings she had for the sadness she felt for her late husband and the happiness from her freedom, until eventually accepting the new found bliss.

Women are no stranger to a socially constrained lifestyle and society, especially in the late 1800’s. Women were believed to live a certain way, fulfill certain roles and duties in the household, and to be extremely fragile and weak. This type of culture still exists today but not to the extreme that it once was. Kate Chopin, however, not afraid speak out against the implications of society breaks free of the social norms of the 1800’s through her strong female characters. Specifically, in her short story, The Story of an Hour, Chopin captures quite the roller coaster of an hour in the life of Mrs. Louise Mallard, who receives the news of her husband 's apparent death. After receiving the news, it only takes a few moments of grief until Louise realizes she is no longer shackled to her husband in marriage and is now a free, independent woman. In her short story, The Story of an Hour, Chopin addresses many issues pertaining to feminism, such as a the expression of a woman’s independence and unique identity, distinct from that of her husband’s all through her main character Louise.

Women in this day and age are significantly privileged compared to those of the early nineteenth century. They are able to marry solely for love, enjoy hobbies of their choice, and simply speak what’s on their mind. In “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, the main character Louise Mallard dies of “a joy that kills,” which represents herself, her marriage, and women like her. She learns of a self-awareness that enables her to see what life is really about, but this new awakening literally takes her breath away.

In the short story “The Story of The Hour” by Kate Chopin their is a woman named Louise Mallard with a heart problem that dreams of being free from her husband that tells her what to do. Louise’s sister Josephine breaks the news that her husband was in a train wreck and that he could possibly be dead. The conflict in this story is Mrs.Mallards thoughts,emotion and reaction to the news of Mrs.Mallards death.

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.