The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

In the past many decades the definition of what a marriage means changed dramatically in some areas. For the author of both stories, Kate Chopin, she wanted the reader to get something out of the story. She likes to explore all types of themes in her stories such as, racism, the roles of women, and adultery. With these themes and messages she struggled to have most of her stories published. In many of her stories she passed along these messages through the manner of a marriage. In her short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree 's Baby” she showed just how different marriages could be as well as how similar they can be. Chopin portrays the lives of the main characters, Louise Mallard from “The Story of An Hour” and Desiree Aubigny

In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, the main character, Mrs. Louise Mallard, is a woman with a heart problem that gets horrifying news that her husband has passed away in a train crash. When she starts thinking about her freedom, she gets excited; she is happy to start her new, free life. However, a few hours later her husband walks in the door and she finds out it was all a mistake. When she realizes her freedom is gone her heart stop and she then dies. In “Desiree’s Baby” Desiree is an orphaned woman who married her loving husband, Armand, and they are very much in love. In Kate Chopin’s short story is says, “"He was reminded that she was nameless. What did it matter about a name when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?" (24-26). When they finally have a baby, they notice that the child is showing marks that he is a mix of two races. The husband blames the wife because of her unknown past and sends her and the baby away for good. Later, as he is cleaning out their old stuff, he finds a letter that says, in fact, he is the one of mixed race and not her. The husband then realizes he gave up everything he cared about over a silly mistake. Both of these stories show the women struggling in their marriages. It is typical for Kate Chopin to show the dominance in the male characters, especially in the marriages as it was in the “Old South”, when women were meant to serve their husbands. Rena Korb says, “In certain ways, "Desiree 's Baby" is

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.

In the past equality was a big issue. Man and Woman did not have the same rights. Women sick in ambitions. The story “The Story of an Hour” deals about a wife who lost her husband and is destroyed by it. All the love she has for him disappeared and first she has to find a way to handle it. After she stops crying, she finally pushes herself up, looks out the window to see the clear blue sky, which helps her to realize that she is not under her husband’s control anymore. Finally, she was released. Also in “Trifles” the wife had to handle the situation that her husband dies but in this case the wife most likely killed her husband because she could not stand anymore the fact that he treated her as a slave. Both women have to accept a big loss in their lives but they also feel a sense of freedom and relief that they are not anymore under a man’s control. Both stories deal with women who struggle under their rules of their husbands but at the end they find a way to escape and finally start to live their own life. The stories are taken place in the early 1900s and act about the old traditional gender roles which played an important role in the society. Women had to fight for their freedom and against their husbands.

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.

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard who got some shocking news which changes her independence in life. At first glance it may look as if Mrs. Mallard is devastated by the news she receives, but there is more to it. She thinks about what life will be like from that day forward. But in the end, life doesn’t work like she thought it would. Mrs. Mallard has a internal conflict between her desire to be independent and society’s role for women, which doesn’t allow the independence she desires.

The very short piece of writing, The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin reveals the power of authenticity the bobs under the surface of every safely passing hour. In her life as well as her literary vocation, Chopin rallied against the customary decorum that was the established role of women. Living during the turn of the twentieth century, women’s liberation was still a far cry in the distance. Chopin’s writing was a heralding cry for those women who would not remain furiously quiet for much longer. The Story of an Hour reveals the force of passion for freedom that can enlighten life, but also has the power to kill.

T he Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin displayed that the marriage between her husband and her must have been very controlling. She says in the short story after hearing that her husband died that she was free, free, free, after the sobbing of course. This hints towards the readers that he judged her and kind of controlled the decision that she had made in everyday life. She felt renewed after his death; little did she know he was actually still alive.

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.

Freedom is being able to have your own control or having self-rule, having more power than before. Freedom connects with “the story of an hour” because Mrs. Mallard finds unexpected freedom, no matter how transient.

Freedom is trying to escape a situation you either don't want anymore or want to get away from. I chose freedom because, “The story of an hour” is about a woman who wants to be divorced from her husband or just wants to be away from him in general. In The Beginning of the story it say, “ It was her sister Josephine who told her, In broken sentences; to near her”. And when Mrs. Mallard heard she felt relieved. In the middle of the paragraph Mrs. Mallard goes to her room and shuts the door but, she opens her window and in the story this was exactly what was written, “ There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, room armchair.” This relates to freedom because the door she closed symbolizes her past that she wants to leave behind. The

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

My thought or opinion about the theme of this story would be that Mrs. Mallard didn’t really love her husband and she would be happy to move on since she felt that she was free the reason I think about it like this is because when Mrs. Mallard gets the news from her sister Josephine, She was shocked when she told her about the death of her husband she went to her room and thought about what happened.

The story, “The Story of An Hour” was written by Kate Chopin. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850. She wrote several stories for kids and adults. The story took place in Mr. Louis’ and Mrs. Mallard’s home in nineteen century. The major characters of the story were Mr. Louis the husband of Mrs. Mallard, Josephine, Mrs. Mallard’s sister and Mr. Richards, Mr. Louis’ friend. The conflicts were between Mrs. Mallard and her husband Mr. Louis.

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