An Hour Marriage

"The Story of an Hour" is a brief story in which the author Kate Chopin, displays a hopeless point of view of nuptials. Chopin's chief character, Mrs. Mallard experiences the happiness of free will rather than the depression of being alone for the rest of her life after she learns her husband has died in a railroad accident at work. Mrs. Mallard later learns that her husband, Brently, has survived. She sees that every one of her expectations of living freely have been robbed from her. Mrs. Mallard is so shocked and disappointed of his survival it literally causes her heart to fail and she dies instantly.Seeing how this story was written in the late eighteen hundred's, "The Story of an Hour" may be a good indicator of how marriage use to be …show more content…
Mallard feels until you investigate how she responds and the words she uses after she finds out about her husband.In the first line of paragraph 8 "She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength," suggest that Mrs. Mallard was being subdued by her husband. When she learns that her husband has died in an accident, she knows that she will no longer be controlled by him any longer as it says in paragraph 14 "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." Brently love's his wife Mrs. Mallard very much and Mrs. Mallard knows that he does, but Brently only ever looks upon Mrs. Mallard with love; this suggest he wasn't giving Mrs. Mallard the kind of love that she needed. Perhaps during this era Brently felt it was his obligation to control everything Mrs. Mallard does, even his right as a husband. After Mrs. Mallard finds out that her husband has died, she knows there will be no one to hold her down, there will be no one to tell her how to live her life. Then in the blink of an eye, all that she had come to realize had been taken from her in an