A Literary Analysis on “The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin
The way Kate Chopin uses irony, emotions and symbols in such an exceeding short story to create such an exciting impressive literary piece from a dull and boring theme is truly amazing. Chopin’s rich, complete and full of meaning “The story of an hour” touches the reader’s feelings and mind by describing the feelings of a married woman and feminine identities in late 19th century, and helps the reader to have a better understanding of the married life of a woman in that period of time. In this story, Louise Mallard; the main character with a heart condition, hears that her husband is died in a train accident. At first she is sad, but when she is left alone in her room, she begins to feel the true joy and freedom by imagining that her husband’s death will ultimately free her to live her own life. However, she does not feel this joy for a long time because when she bravely comes back downstairs, unexpectedly sees her husband walks through the door and her “joy” replaces with the shock that he’s still alive and this abruptly ends her life. This paper will be literary analyzing Chopin’s “The story of an hour” by discussing the …show more content…
Chopin as a feminist author in late 19th century sets the theme of her story based on feminine identity and women’s role in a marriage during that period and uses nature imagery, irony and tragedy elements in her work such as these quotes: “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead” (Chopin 2). “And yet she had loved him -- sometimes. Often she had not” (Chopin
The way Kate Chopin uses irony, emotions and symbols in such an exceeding short story to create such an exciting impressive literary piece from a dull and boring theme is truly amazing. Chopin’s rich, complete and full of meaning “The story of an hour” touches the reader’s feelings and mind by describing the feelings of a married woman and feminine identities in late 19th century, and helps the reader to have a better understanding of the married life of a woman in that period of time. In this story, Louise Mallard; the main character with a heart condition, hears that her husband is died in a train accident. At first she is sad, but when she is left alone in her room, she begins to feel the true joy and freedom by imagining that her husband’s death will ultimately free her to live her own life. However, she does not feel this joy for a long time because when she bravely comes back downstairs, unexpectedly sees her husband walks through the door and her “joy” replaces with the shock that he’s still alive and this abruptly ends her life. This paper will be literary analyzing Chopin’s “The story of an hour” by discussing the …show more content…
Chopin as a feminist author in late 19th century sets the theme of her story based on feminine identity and women’s role in a marriage during that period and uses nature imagery, irony and tragedy elements in her work such as these quotes: “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead” (Chopin 2). “And yet she had loved him -- sometimes. Often she had not” (Chopin