Feminist Approach In Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

Feminist Approach in The Story of an Hour In The story of an hour, Louise Mallard experienced a sense of freedom after she was told that her husband died in a train accident. At the beginning of the story, miss Mallard suffers from grief and sorrow because she has lost her husband, which reflects a woman`s emotion, and that’s normal in the lady's case. With her fizzy emotions and weak heart as maintained in the story, from here begins the suffering and show sympathy with miss Mallard's condition. After hearing the bad news, she goes alone to her room, leaving behind her sister and her husband`s friend who told her about her husband`s tragedy, and her appears another sympathy towards her for being alone in her room which makes …show more content…
She felt as achieving victory that she finally became free from the fist of her autocratic husband who used to dominate her, but this don’t deny the fact that she really felt sad for her loss as stated in the story " she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister`s arms" , what confirms being an emotional woman full of sentiments. When she sat on the chair in her room, she started to see thing in a different way as she seeing them for the first time, as she for the first time experiences how to feel with things around her, full of energy and promise her of a bright future, So exactly she got rid of the short grief Condition on her deceased husband, she actually didn’t feel sad like any other widow, her mourning was different, dreams and images which appeared in front of her the moment she looked through the window has changed her emotions from an absolute grief and loneliness to looking Forward to the happy agleam future, " Free, Free, Free!" yelled Louise expressing the bachelorhood waiting for …show more content…
Women at this time were usually confined to a domestic role, but Louise wants a different role. The open window and the natural images are symbolic of her desire to be free