1. Describe where you see one of the five parts of plot in "A Story of an Hour." Provide a definition of the part and details from the story.
In the short story “Story of an hour’ by Kate Chopin tells a story of a women in critical heart condition and finding about her husband’s death. The part of the plot I found most interesting was the "Conclusion or Resolutions" part of the story. Conclusion or resolution is after the “Climax” and “Falling action” of a plot of a story. The conclusion usually sums up the story or a piece of writing and where the author reflects upon the entire story. I found the conclusion interesting because of how ironic the entire story seemed after reading the last few lines. As we find out that Mrs. Mallard found out about her husband’s death, instead of being devastated and showing more declining heart problems, we see her feeling joyful. She felt as though she was free from her husband. She felt “the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.” She eventually collapses and dies from her excitement, and the doctors said “she had died of heart disease—of joy …show more content…
One might say the theme shows how life forbids the joy of freedom, not literally but figuratively. In this story Mrs. Mallard got the news of her husband’s death, she normally cried with grief but soon felt a sense of freedom from her husband and marriage. She knew she loved her husband and even liked her marriage to a certain extent but still felt that any or most marriage oppresses one or if not both partners. She also had sense of guilt for her joy of freedom because she knows society would frown upon this. Through extreme circumstances, right after she felt the joy of freedom she collapses and dies. Figuratively, this shows how our society and the universe doesn’t condone our lives to be free, or even get a false sense of freedom, since it turns out her husband was never dead in the first
In the short story “Story of an hour’ by Kate Chopin tells a story of a women in critical heart condition and finding about her husband’s death. The part of the plot I found most interesting was the "Conclusion or Resolutions" part of the story. Conclusion or resolution is after the “Climax” and “Falling action” of a plot of a story. The conclusion usually sums up the story or a piece of writing and where the author reflects upon the entire story. I found the conclusion interesting because of how ironic the entire story seemed after reading the last few lines. As we find out that Mrs. Mallard found out about her husband’s death, instead of being devastated and showing more declining heart problems, we see her feeling joyful. She felt as though she was free from her husband. She felt “the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.” She eventually collapses and dies from her excitement, and the doctors said “she had died of heart disease—of joy …show more content…
One might say the theme shows how life forbids the joy of freedom, not literally but figuratively. In this story Mrs. Mallard got the news of her husband’s death, she normally cried with grief but soon felt a sense of freedom from her husband and marriage. She knew she loved her husband and even liked her marriage to a certain extent but still felt that any or most marriage oppresses one or if not both partners. She also had sense of guilt for her joy of freedom because she knows society would frown upon this. Through extreme circumstances, right after she felt the joy of freedom she collapses and dies. Figuratively, this shows how our society and the universe doesn’t condone our lives to be free, or even get a false sense of freedom, since it turns out her husband was never dead in the first