Unusual Resolutions In The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

The point of view being used in Kate Chopin’s Story of an Hour is a non-participating omniscient third-person narrator. By using this kind of narration, Chopin is not limited to just one characters point of view. Being an unidentified outsider can be very beneficial to the reader because we know something that the main character doesn’t and that can cause great anticipation, which usually increases the reader’s interest. Since Chopin decided to use this technique, it is much easier to go into great detail about what the widow, Mrs. Mallard is thinking. In this case, the author is revealing Mrs. Mallard’s unexpected happiness that came with knowing that her husband has passed.

“The Story of an Hour”, a powerful short story to express the pursuit of freedom from one woman’s perspective. In this story, Kate Chopin creates a female character who has been suffering from heart disease and can’t handle too much shock in her life. A story about an unfortunate woman who receives her husband’s death news accidently. To express an idea of women’s freedom, the story is based on how she reacts to the news of her husband’s death and how her mind changed during the ordeal with the bad news. Chopin uses a bad news to start her story, the death news of Mr. Mallard plays an important role to develop the story. As a turning point of this story, how does Mrs. Mallard think about her husband’s death? She sees it as a window

The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, is a wonderful short story filled with many different peculiar twists and turns. Written in 1894, the author tells a tale of a woman who learns of her husband’s death, but comes to find joy in it. Many of the things Kate Chopin writes about in this story symbolize something more than just the surface meaning. Through this short story, told in less than one thousand one hundred words, Kate Chopin illustrates deeper meanings through many different forms of symbolism such as the open window in the bedroom, Mrs. Louise Mallard’s heart trouble, and Chopin’s physical description of Mrs. Mallard.

The short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin was published in the year 1894. Chopin tries to recreate in the story about the live in the late nineteenth century, and how this affected couples. The believes in this years is that the women must stayed home and serve to her husband. During the story, the author catch the reader attention by mention the conflict of emotions that occurred in the story. Beside this, there are a couple of several elements that the author use to maintain the reader’s attention. The main elements that the author emphasize are the conflict, symbolism, and irony. These three are presented along the story to refer about Louise Mallard, and any other women, that lived in the late nineteenth

In the piece “Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin uses symbolism and direct characterization to characterize the protagonist, Mrs. Mallard. When Chopin writes, “she could see before her...the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life” (Chopin, Kate. “The Story” 630) she uses the beginning of spring to symbolize the rebirth of independence Mrs. Mallard has just experienced after feeling so repressed throughout her marriage. Chopin uses direct characterization when she writes, “she was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression” (Chopin, Kate. “The Story” 630). This characterizes Mrs. Mallard as repressed or unvented. Chopin also characterizes another protagonist, Edna Pontellier, in an excerpt from The Awakening,

Most stories have more than one conflict, some bigger than others, but all important as a story progressives to the very moment everything clicks and comes together. After that point, the story starts to wind down, lose ends are tied, and the reader gets the satisfying feeling of a happy ending. The Story of an Hour is not your typical short story; but is similar to others in the way that conflicts are the leading force behind a short story. This story starts with Mrs. Mallard finding out any wife’s worst news and realizing it is the best news she has ever heard. Within the short hour of the announcement, the news that was going to save her, ended up killing her. The internal conflicts Mrs. Mallard faces in Chopin’s The Story of an Hour are subtle, but lead to a resolution that makes the reader question if they believe the author or not.

Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour is a brilliant short story of irony and emotion. The story demonstrates conflicts that take us through the character’s emotions as she finds out about the death of her husband. Without the well written series of conflicts and events this story, the reader would not understand the depth of Mrs. Mallard’s inner conflict and the resolution at the end of the story. The conflict allows us to follow the emotions and unfold the irony of the situation in “The Story of an Hour.”

“The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin, depicts an emotionally imprisoned widow that finds freedom in her husband’s death through the use of imagery that describes the present, her future, and grief. Louise learns of her husband’s death from her sister. As she isolates herself from her family, she sees “the delicious breath of rain was in the air”. “There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.”

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, shows a negative view on marriage for women by expressing a character that is ecstatic when her husband passes away after a traumatic railroad accident. In the story "The story of an hour, Richards and Josephine must tell Louise Mallard that her husband passed away in a traumatic railroad accident. Due to her heart trouble, Richards and Josephine have to break it to her very easily so she does not have heart attack. Instead of Louise being upset about him passing she becomes tremendously excited about all the freedom she now has, but everyone in the story thinks she is deeply upset. After a few minutes they hear a knock on the door and turn to find out, Mr. Mallard was alive. Louise with sadness and despair falls to the floor and dies.

I agree with this assertion because Mr. Mallard’s death is completely undone at the end of the story. It is the opposite of a story because people found that Mr. Mallard was dead, but the story ends up alive. Meanwhile, Mrs. Mallard’s life, which her friends and family tried so hard to protect at the beginning of the story because she was afflicted with a heart trouble, but her life is lost at the end. So, the story finally ends with an event that Josephine and Richards tried to avoid at the beginning. Therefore, I believe the story is excellent because it has a surprise ending.

In the short story, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, it tells you about a woman with an internal and external conflict. In this story a woman is told about the “devastating” news about her husband’s death, how she reacts explains to the reader what her internal and external conflicts are. Mrs.Mallard has several conflicts in the story including her inner feeling, her outer feelings, and her conflicts with society.

After reading “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin the reader can see that the text reveals a major theme about freedom with the use of a few characters, a basic setting, and plot. This text was written to address the crisis of the restricted lives women were forced to live during that time period. In the beginning of the story, the narrator is discussing how they were being careful to break the news of Louis husband’s death because she had a heart problem. In the middle of the text, we learn how the news was accepted. Finally, in the end of the text, the author adds an interesting plot twists that brings the meaning of the story together. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” is the best story because it developed the theme of the loss of freedom can be detrimental through her use of plot, setting, and character.

In the short story, Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin chronicles the short journey of a woman who has recently learned of the death of her husband from a railroad accident. Kate Chopin is known for her stories which revolve around women and the world from their perspective, and Story of an Hour is no exception. As a writer, Chopin utilizes and employs many rhetorical devices to add emotion and depth to her world. Though Story of an Hour is riddled with rhetorical devices in almost every sentence, the two that tend to stand out the most are the use of irony and foreshadowing.

Kate Chopin's `The Story of an Hour' is a short yet complex piece describing the feelings of Mrs Mallard. This story is overflowing with symbolism and imagery. The most prominent theme here is the longing for freedom. Chopin focuses on unfolding the emotional state of Mrs Mallard which can be separated into three stages: quickly moving to grief, through a sense of newfound freedom, and finally into the despair of the loss of that freedom.

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