Love Story Of An Hour Analysis

The word love is one that is heard frequently on a daily bases in our society. While the meaning behind the word is anything but simple. The dictionary definition of love encompasses anything from a strong affection towards someone from kinship or personal ties to attraction based on sexual desire, to warm attachment and in a spiritual context of being unselfish and benevolent concern for the good of others. (Love). The stories, What We Talk About When We Talk about Love and The Story of an Hour define love just as complex as the Webster definition. Love is fluid, ever changing, and unique to each individual and relationship. In The Story of an Hour displayed love on multiple levels. It was displayed between Mrs. Mallard and her sister Josephine as she searched for a way to gently tell her of her husband’s death. Though, the focal point of love was the relationship between Mrs. Mallard and her husband. While the story was vague about the specifics of their relationship, it was evident that their relationship was not your fairy tale love story. With how Mrs. Mallard initially reacted and her subsequent thoughts and behaviors it illustrated that there are societal norms of what love is supposed to be. How it’s supposed to be present between a husband and wife and how one is …show more content…
There are alike in how they demonstrated that despite there being expectations of what love should be that in reality love doesn’t always look like what it would in an ideal world. In The Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard spoke about how, “She loved him sometimes, often she had not” (Page 648), referring to her husband. That despite being married to one another love did not consume her marriage and it was the thought of her married ending due to her husband’s death that caused thoughts of joy and happiness and the love of her newfound