Her Husband's Friend

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is a short yet complex story, describing Mrs Mallard’s feelings. It focuses on the unfolding emotional state of Mrs Mallard after the news of her husbands death, and has overflowing symbolism and imagery. It is an impressive literary piece that touches the readers’ feelings and mind and allows the reader to have a connection to Mrs Mallard’s emotional process. Although the story is short, it is complete with each word carrying deep sense and meaning. It is written

“The Storm,” is that it is utterly dripping with sexual imagery and symbolism. Our heroine, if you will, seems to be a woman with normally restrained passions and a well-defined sense of propriety, who finds herself in a situation that tears down her restraint and reveals the vixen within. I wonder if it was intentional that the name Calixta makes me think of Calypso – the nymph from Greek mythology. If half of the sexual symbolism I found in this story was intentional, Chopin was a genius. I

tragedy of the main character of the story, Mrs. Mallard. The story takes place in the Victorian era where women had very little rights. Her character was well developed and attention grabbing throughout the story. Also, throughout the plot of the story, Mrs. Mallard experiences a great deal of emotional conflicts. Her character changes from grieving for her husband’s death to being riddled with subtle joy and claiming she was “free” towards the end of the story. The main character, Mrs. Mallard, has

emotion connection between her husband’s death and her. Her husband died of a tragic railroad accident. I believe her heart trouble was a broken heart because of the loss of her significant other. Her husband friend stood by her side as she grieved over her husband’s death. Mrs. Mallard felling of abandonment made me feel apologetic for her and also a connection due to the relation of feeing a sense of sorrow. Instead of her expressing her feeling; she choose to go to her room. Many people grieve

interpretations, here is one that stands out. “The Wife’s Lament” may be about a wife expressing sorrow at her husband’s leave for a distant land. The wife’s husband may have betrayed her and left her to live in a cave. Since the wife still cares about her husband, she goes out trying to find him, but her husband’s kinsmen try to keep them apart. Meanwhile, the wife feels her life passing her by, longing for her husband to come home. She mentions

having fancy things to appreciate what she had. This leads to her losing a precious diamond necklace that she borrowed from a friend. Mathilde works for 10 long years to pay off the necklace. She loses what little she had in order to pay for it, and ends up blaming her friend for all of her hardship she and her husband had to endure. Mathilde's love for material things can be seen in a quote as follows, “She grieved over the shabbiness of her apartment, the dinginess of the walls, the worn-out appearance

marriage. Her sister Josephine and his husband’ friend Richards try to use as veiled and tender language as possible to inform Mrs. Mallard of his husband’s death, afraid that she cannot accept the sad message (Chopin 1156). It implies that Josephine believes Mrs.

The third essay is titled: My Mexican Friend Marta. In this essay, Behar explores the vulnerabilities of women in academia and at home. For Behar’s friend Marta, it was always a struggle to live under the shadow of her elder sister, who was always the smart one, whom received all her father’s favour and approval. Marta is constantly fighting for greater affirmation from her parents. The need to attain greater achievement outside the home, in this case, in academics, remains a vulnerability for Marta

live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is the story of a woman’s reaction to the news of her husband’s passing. Mrs. Louise Mallard is a young woman most would conclude to be saddened by the passing of her husband. Yet it is in that very moment we find her true feelings. Kate Chopin was born Katherine O’Flaherty

supportive wife, borrows money from Torvald’s friend Krogstad without her husband’s consent in the early years of their marriage. The money borrowed was used to pay for the expenses needed to prevent her husband from dying. Nora has a growing knowledge of her failing marriage right from the time she borrows money from Krogstad, her conversation with Dr Rank and Christine, admonition from husband for her frivolous spending, and eventually the reaction of her husband when he receives the information about