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Trauma In Kate Chopin's Story Of An Hour

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As we go through life, we are confronted with various challenges that we have to deal with. Whether it be a near-death experience or simply getting a speeding ticket, these things are thrown at us as we live our daily lives. They also cause us trauma in one way or another; either by giving us serious anxiety, or by causing us to rethink our lives. either way we experience some form of trauma. The most important outcome of these type of situations is that we learn from them. We are able to take those experiences and learn from their causes and consequences, thus allowing us to adapt later in our lives. The things that we experience in these events, teach us how to adapt in life and how to live the remainder of our live a little wiser and more …show more content…

When Mrs. Mallard hears the news of her husband’s reported death, she starts to realize that she will be able to live for herself and gets used to the idea pretty quickly. In society today, you see similar experiences, when a loved one that was not a very nice person passes away, his or her loved ones tend not to take the death as hard. Mrs. Mallard likes the idea of having personal freedom, and because of this, she doesn’t get too upset about her husband’s death. Now she is told by a fairly reliable source granted, but she still jumps to the conclusion that her husband is in fact dead and emotionally prepares herself for a better life alone. This is what is called counting her chickens before they hatch, but what exactly does that mean? According to dictionary.com counting ones’ eggs before they hatch means, “Assume that you’ll get the things you want before you have them.” (dictionary.com) This means that she was counting on her husband being dead before she knew for certain that he was; or in other words, she jumped to conclusions. When you think about jumping to conclusion, you might ask yourself whether or not it’s a bad thing to do; most philosophers would agree with the idea that jumping to conclusions is not a very smart thing to do. One of those philosophers is Mr. Alexander Zorach; Mr. Zorach expresses the following idea about jumping to conclusions: “Jumping to conclusions is a common type of error or fallacy in reasoning or thinking, in which a person draws conclusions which are not warranted from available information. … In depression or anxiety, a person often falsely concludes that things are going to go wrong, or that they have done something wrong. However, people can also jump to false conclusions in ways that introduce positive bias, or other sorts of bias.”

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