The Embodiment of Mental Illness Portrayed in Choplin's “Story of an Hour”, Faulkner's “Rose for Emily”, and Gilman’s “Yellow Wallpaper”

In the story "The Story From An Hour," talks about a wealthy family dealing with the loss of a loved one and how to deal with the repercussions of death. It discusses how people deal with death differently. I feel one of the main focus points in this story is on the character, Louise Mallard. How the author portrays her as a loving housewife, who unfortunately has a heart condition Josephine her sister was concerned how she was going to handle telling the news about Brantly’s death.

Mrs. Mallard's relatives concerned about her hearing the news of her husband because she was afflicted with heart trouble and thus, heart attack may occur if the sudden sadness is too overwhelmed for her. Despite their concerns, she was relieved and overjoyed when she knew that her husband was dead in the accident. Louise then realized she was now an independent woman and to hide her actual feelings toward the husband's death, she locked herself in the room. In her relatives' eyes, she was probably in despair and was mourning. In fact, Louise did so in order to squelch the joy she was having, to "beat it back with her will". She cried, but not because of sadness. Louise sobbed

Many people have believed that marriage validates a woman’s life and also defines her. Once this idealized milestone has been reached, she then begins to define herself through marital expectations. These stereotypical expectations include bearing children, maintaining a home, and living up to the preset standards that a woman should. Women have upheld this traditional role for centuries and have been reluctantly accepting while doing so. The problem with this traditional belief is that orienting a life around marriage—without experiencing the joys that exploring individuality brings beforehand—will only result in a woman’s unhappiness; Mrs. Mallard, the main character in “The story of an Hour,” experiences just this, for she is consumed by a severe depression that also effects the health of her tender heart. Her marriage becomes oppressive and renders disappointment and un-fulfillment in all that it entails, leaving her bereft of both metaphorical and physical life. She was never able to feel satisfied with her marriage because she never experienced life beforehand. In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin uses irony to illustrate that a traditional marriage harms a woman both physically and mentally.

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

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” focuses on a woman named Louise Mallard and her reaction to finding out about her husband’s death. The descriptions that the author uses in the story have significance in the plot because they foreshadow the ending.

In the first writing, “The story of an Hour” is about Louise Mallard a woman in the 19’s centuries that suffer from a heart condition. One day she is informed that her husband died in a train accident, at first she gets sad and start crying while she walks to her room to be alone. She starts thinking of how life is going to be without her husband and begins to say

Hidden Lives is the testimony of the authors “coming out on mental illness” and tackling the stigmas associated with it. The novel switches authors at the end of each chapter, resulting in a variation of stories amongst many mentally ill individuals providing their own stories and why these stories can help empower others to become educated on the

In the story of an hour Louise Mallard is informed that her husband has just died, she asks to be alone for a while and goes to her room. When she is in her room she begins to have a strange sense of freedom. At first she does not want to accept this. Almost as soon as she has embraced this new sense of freedom, she goes back down stairs and her husband walks in the front door causing her new awakening to be dashed out of her reach. Which then causes her to die of a heart attack.

In the short story “The Story of an Hour,” the author Kate Chopin writes about a wife with heart trouble that loses her husband in a railroad disaster. The text tells us that the wife, Louise Mallard, has an internal conflict due to her unhappy marriage. There are many times the text reveals this internal conflict. There are many examples of symbolism throughout the story. After finding out her husband is dead, Louise goes up to her room alone.

“The Story of an Hour” is a short story that bases itself among the conflicting feelings Mrs. Mallard has to go through when faced with the news of her husband’s death. The story argues that Mrs. Mallard is awfully affected by her husband’s death, that she herself passes away. But, with the use of several examples from the story, it is clear that she didn’t pass away from a broken heart, but instead from realization that her husband wasn’t dead at all. The theme of this short story suggests that women from this time period were usually seen as being just a mother or a wife, and nothing more. With deep analysis of this text, the audience sees that there is irony, symbolism, and personification used to help with understanding the actual reason

The short story “The Story of An Hour” written by Kate Chopin is a story centered around the main character, Mrs.Mallard. The main character, Louise Mallard, also known as Mrs.Mallard, is finally set free from a miserable and sorrowful marriage and is able to grasp a hold of the freedom she was in search of during her times of misery. Mrs.Mallard had three major issues in this short story; 1.) She disliked her husband 2.) She struggled with heart/ health issues and 3.)

This story focuses on the 19th century European political domination and impact on the rest of the world today. In “The Story of an Hour” Louise was in an unhappy relationship, but had to live her life as a lie. She acted as if she were happy, and had no hated towards Mr. Mallard. Louise suffers from a weak heart, and lives a psychologically torpid and anemic life, until she hears the news that her husband had died. This story focuses on the 19th century because in the older times women were on a lower class than men, and it was probably unheard of for a woman to divorce a man, so Louise stayed in an unhappy marriage.

The theme of Story Of An Hour I believe the book suggests that marriage, regardless of the good intentions of the people it joins, necessarily results in repression and a loss of freedom.The story plays with both irony and tragedy as the shock that her friends fear will kill Louise restores her freedom, and the joy they anticipate for her is the heartbreak that kills her. The story focuses on the evils inherent in marriage as an institution, not Louise Mallard’s specific relationship, about which we are told very little.

In "The Story of an Hour" a woman named Louise Mallard learns that her husband has been killed in a horrific train accident. Her loved ones are immediately concerned that this news will be too much for poor Louise to bear. Louise suffers from a heart ailment, which in the Victorian period made her only more attractive as a society wife because she was fragile and physically impaired and no woman should strive to be strong or healthy. Unexpectedly, the news of her husband's demise is not upsetting to Louise but instead she

“The Story of an Hour” tells the story about Mrs. Mallard, who learns that her husband is dead and right after that faces a great variety of emotions and feelings. Mrs. Mallard has a heart problem. One day she gets news that her husband has died in a railroad disaster. She starts crying at once, goes upstairs and locks herself in her room. She feels very lonely at first but then she starts feeling happy and free from her marriage. After some time she opens the door and descends the stairs. She surprisingly sees Mr. Mallard at the door. When she looks at Mr. Mallard, she dies suddenly. The doctor says that she dies of her heart disease, from the "joy that kills." This story illustrates the dependent condition and status of married women in the 19th century and reveals the fact that there is no way of escaping from marriage except one’s death.