The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” allows one to explore many ironic instances throughout the story, the main one in which a woman unpredictably feels free after her husband’s assumed death. Chopin uses Mrs. Mallard’s bizarre story to illustrate the struggles of reaching personal freedom and trying to be true to yourself to reach self-assertion while being a part of something else, like a marriage. In “The Story of an Hour” the main character, Mrs. Mallard, celebrates the death of her husband, yet Chopin uses several ironic situations and certain symbols to criticize the behavior of Mrs. Mallard during the time of her “loving” husband’s assumed death.

“The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin was a story that was ironical yet profoundly deep. As a student I have been asked to read “a story of an hour” many times, and every time I’m surprised by how I enjoy it. People can read thousands of stories in their life times and only a handful will every stand out to them, stories that can draw out an emotion or spark a thought are the ones that will standout more. For me and “a story of an hour” the thought of freedom is what draws me the most as a teenage I would feel a deep and heavy cage that traps me in its invisible snarl. It is hard to explain why one feels that way many a times feelings are just a way of showing frustration. Mrs. Mallard I assume has many frustrations, and she associated her imprisonment with her marriage to her husband. In many versions Mrs. Mallard says he is not a mean man and she did have feelings. It is just an unexplainable blanket of depression that anyone can fall through. Like a cold or an unsuspecting wounds one cannot prevent what one does not know of until it becomes apparent .as the story progresses I add more of my own emotion and slowing I draw a bridge that connects me to the basic feel of the story. In the begging I am just an outsider looking in not yet connected with their feeling, then the realization hits one and so does mine, and finally when Mrs. Mallard freedom from her is taken yet it is not. This is what make the story believable the unchained freedom of feelings that is taboo for

Everyone who reads a story will interpret things slightly different than the person who reads it before or after him or her. This idea plays out with most every story, book, song, and movie. These interpretations create conflict and allow people to discuss different ideas and opinions. Without this conflict of thought there is no one devoting time to debate the true meaning of a text. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” tells about a woman who is informed of her husbands death, processes the emotions, and becomes content with this new status as an individual person – losing all the expectations that society expected her to live by within a marriage. This story however is written in a way that the reader has the final interpretation of the text. There are many different interpretations on not only the reason for the main character’s death, but also on the overwhelming emotions that she faces.

“ ‘Free, free, free; body and soul free’ ” (Chopin 100-101), are the faint words whispered from Louise’s parted lips. But, why? Mrs. Mallard, also known as Louise, is the main character of Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour”. Within the story, Louise is given dreadful news concerning her husband who allegedly has been killed in a railroad disaster. And as the story progresses, her transgressions through her swift emotional changes about the matter, from grief and fear to an unrecognizable joy for freedom, are shown, exploring the very question at hand. And, even though Louise may seem as a weak and fragile woman, at first, through the death of her husband and her emotions that are shown throughout the short story, one can see Louise

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, is a short novel about Louise Mallard accepting that her husband had recently suffered a life ending tragedy. She quickly gets over the devastating news and begins to look forward to what the future has on hold for her. When she goes downstairs to meet up with Richard she sees her husband, Brently Mallard, in the front door alive and she ends up dying.

"The Story of an Hour" is about a young lady, named Mrs. Mallard. The story describes of how she is heartbroken, upon hearing of her husband's death. The buddy of Mrs. Mallard's messaged this tragic news. However, Mrs. Mallard's sister was the one who told her. What happens next is a bit unusual. Mrs. Mallard goes to her room and starts to feel something new. It is, actually, a feeling of relief. Now, Mrs Mallard thinks that she has the rest of her life just for herself.

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.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” tales a short story of the marital relationship to display and comment on marriage and her attitude towards marital relationships, wives are imprisoned by their husbands and the ring on their fourth finger. Marriage was viewed as being imprisoned, with only one means of escape: death. Chopin begins her story with introducing Louise as Mrs. Mallard, yet her sister is acknowledged as Josephine, which emphasizes Mrs. Mallard’s married identity, she’s no longer her own person but rather her husband’s property. In fact, Mrs. Mallard isn’t recognized as Louise until she released from her recently deceased husband. Wives are viewed as property and enslaved, captured. Men or husbands are they’re own individuals,

“The story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin is an influential story about Mrs. Mallard who is given the terrible news that her husband has died in a train accident. She is overwhelmed by her spouse’s death and excuses herself, instantly hurries to her bedroom where a different side of Mrs. Mallard’s emotions are shown. Mrs. Mallard has taken on an altered viewpoint of life now. She is saddened about her spouse dying but she has something to be pleased about which is being herself. The central character, Mrs. Mallard shows opinions and feelings that can support and go against the feminist theory.

"The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin is written using a third-person limited omniscient point of view. This point of view is used to show and manipulate Mrs. Mallard's emotions, while still being able to include events that she did not know about and would never be able to learn due to her sudden death. The omniscient narration of "The Story of An Hour" also creates a reliable narration since the storyteller is not a character and is not plagued by incorrect information due to mental illness, lies, confusion, etc. The narrator uses especially descriptive wording to illustrate the main character's emotions through out the text. For example Mrs. Mallard's initial central conflict was the grief she encountered over her husbands death. To paint

In the short story "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin, Chopin brings to life a climactic happening with the character, Louise Mallard. Louise’s sister, Josephine, and her husband’s friend, Richards, must be careful breaking the news of her husband, Brentley’s death to her. Through his death, Louise exhibits her true feelings about her husband, about herself that has been buried for so long, and gets a taste of brief freedom.

The loss of a loved one should bring about an overwhelming feeling of loneliness and depression. In The Story of an Hour, written by Kate Chopin in 1894, the protagonist, Louise Mallard, has to deal with the apparent death of her husband Brently. Brently Mallard is suspected to have died in an accident near a railroad, but the information about his death is false. Due to the lack of technology, his family is misinformed about him and the story follows Louise Mallard in her final moments. After thinking about her future without Brently, Louise is startled by his reappearance and the shock causes her to die of heart disease. Her death is foreshadowed earlier in the story when the author characterizes Louise as “afflicted with a heart trouble” (Chopin). One would infer that when a couple reaches the highest stage of a relationship (marriage) that their connection and bond has become too powerful to be questioned. Although in some instances this theory may be true, one can never be too sure about the emotions and feelings of others even if marriage is a binding factor. Kate Chopin uses symbols and characterization within The Story of an Hour to demonstrate the uncertainty in relationships. Symbols in The Story of an Hour bring meaning and understand to the enriched short story. Louise locked herself in her room after the news of her husband and as she look out the window “she could see....the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.” (Chopin). The new spring

Kate Chopin wrote the short story “The Story of an Hour” in the late nineteenth century. The main character, Mrs. Mallard, is a representation of all of the women of that time. Although they may be in relationships where their husbands treat them well, it is not enough. All most women want is their freedom and independence. They want to do as they please and not be dependent on their husband or their family. Women in that time were simply not allowed to be independent or have their own freedom. Before a woman is married she is known to belong to her family, and when she is married, she belongs to her husband. This is why Mrs. Mallard was actually more delighted than devastated when she heard the news of her husband being killed in a train accident. The news of her husband’s death “brings tears of release rather than of grief” (Harris). The theme of this short story is freedom and independence but at a cost. There are many shocking turns of events throughout Kate Chopin’s short story which leads to Mrs. Mallard gaining her freedom, gaining her independence, and then losing them both.

Literature, often has a moral message embedded in it, the theme plays a crucial role to serve as a reflection of humanity actions. The concept of free will vs. fate, argues whether an individual has the choice to determine their future in a society that has already cast one’s fate. In theory, fate constrained free will by assigning each individual a role at birth, thus enforcing a stereotype to shape the individual life. On the contrary, free will states that an individual has the right to escape their fate; that freedom cannot and shall not be molded nor destroyed. Regardless of the individual characteristics or background, society will try, and fail at regulating free will. In “The Story of the Hour”, Kate Chopin presents the reader with

Kate Chopin provides her reader with an enormous amount of information in just a few short pages through her short story, “The Story of an Hour.” The protagonist, Louise Mallard, realizes the many faults in romantic relationships and marriages in her epiphany. “Great care [is] taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 168). Little do Josephine and Richards know, the news will have a profoundly positive effect on Louise rather than a negative one. “When she abandoned herself,” Mrs. Mallard opened her mind to a new way of life. The word usage shows that the protagonist experienced a significant change. This life wouldn’t be compromised by her partner’s will, which will enable her to live for