Suffering In Theodore Roosevelt's The Story Of The Hour

Focusing on her future freedoms she was interrupted at the door by her husband. There had been a mix up and Mr. Mallard was nowhere near the train accident. Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition could not take the weight of change and she passed away.

In “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, he talks about the different kind of suffering that people go through, and that not one person’s suffering is harder or easier to deal with; it is all relative. Perhaps we may, as a normal human being, consider that our suffering is more difficult to deal with than that of that other person; but one can ever know. In the story, both the narrator and his family are in many ways affected by sufferings. In addition, the narrator and his brother, Sonny begins to unravel their complex relationship as brothers; and teach each other about the greater meanings about life and suffering. Throughout the story, the narrator is a very persistent into a parental role; by the end, it is Sonny who teaches his brother a

“Story of an Hour” uses Louise Mallard’s repressed life as a wife to elucidate how repression can lead to bottled up depression. Louise Mallard understands the “right” way for women to behave, but her internal thoughts and feelings are anything but correct. This is first illustrated by the initial reaction to her husband’s death, where she cries instead of feeling numb, as she suspects other women would do. The death of her husband acts as a catalyst to alleviate her depression that rooted in her marriage. In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Louise’s heart problem, which shows the extent to which she believes her marriage has trapped her. The author of the story gives a vague description of Mallard’s heart condition just simply calling it a “heart problem” (Choplin 452). This vague description shows how her “heart problem” is both physical and

This is seen when she started swimming and “a feeling of exultation overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been given her to control the working of her body and her soul. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before” (pg. 31) It can be seen how she’s not content with following everyone else, and instead has to break free from the pack and do her own thing. But, this comes back to bite her as she’s not strong enough to maintain this rebellion forever. She eventually becomes depressed and bipolar. She talks about how some days “she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing . . . she liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places” but “there were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why—when it did not seem worth while . . . to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation” (pg. 64). It is seen how some days she is super happy because she is free from everything, but then it shown how she is sad and depressed because of the terrible situations she put herself into. All of these things add up and she runs out of ways to avoid the problems in her life so she just ends up killing

This is situational irony because the men thought she was going to kill him with one of the weapons on the table, but he died from not taking him

Later in life, after she married, her husband became unfaithful and cheated on her.

In "The Story of an Hour", the story revolves around Mrs. Mallard who suffers from a heart condition. Because of this, everyone tries to make everything easier for her so she doesn't strain herself too hard. This becomes difficult when news arrives

is evident in “An Story of an Hour” that the protagonist lead a very sheltered life due to her illness and

In "The Story of an Hour," Mrs. Mallard seems to be overwhelmed with joy because of her husband's death.

* Mrs. Millard had the news break slowly to her, in the end her death was led by joy

In Kate Chopin's story, "Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard is confronted with a situation she never thought was possible. She found out that her dear husband has died. The people around her do not see her for who she really is and treat her like a porcelain doll while giving her the news. What they cannot see is the powerful and opposite emotions that are zooming through her. She is filled by a "storm of grief, and yet she feels as if she is a "goddess of victory" (Epperson 59, 60) The life she had was not the life she wanted, and the life before her was what she only dreamed of. Upon finding out that her husband is on dead and that the freedom she thought she had was ripped away, the "joy" killed her (Epperson 60). In both stories both of the characters are not only not seen for who they are, but they both also have guilt and love for those that they are close to. Luke Ripley, the main

In Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour," the main character, Mrs. Mallard is diagnosed with a heart condition. She is married to a traveling man, although news comes in unexpectedly that her husband has perished in a train accident. Only having known this terrible information from two telegrams, her sister relays the news gently. Oddly, the newly announced widow silently rejoices at the news of her husband's death. And "Although they thought the news would negatively affect her health, the irony comes in that she finds freedom and liberation in his death"(Tolentino 13).

when she asks "what need one?". They knew this would cause him to leave either house as he had too much pride to agree.

The Story of an Hour signifies oppression and freedom. The story shows oppression in a marriage in the following quotation. “But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.” In this quotation, Louise realizes that she will grieve her husband when she sees him lying in a casket. However, she is no longer bound by her marriage and she is free to do as she pleases. Additionally, freedom is signified when Louise says the following. “She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.” Prior to her husband’s death Louise felt trapped in her marriage and wanted her life to be short so she wouldn’t have to

her marrying a man whom she did not want to have sexual contact with and trying to get other