Comparing Story Of An Hour And A Pair Of Silk Stockings

There are many great stories by Kate Chopin but there are two in particular that I would like to compare and contrast. The two stories I am talking about are The Story of an Hour, and A Pair of Silk Stockings these two stories both have to deal with making decisions. Someway these stories are comparable because both ladies in the story are having unexpected problems Little Mrs. Sommers unexpectedly acquires fifteen dollars and Mrs. Mallard unexpectedly finds out her husband dies. Also, back to the decision making, Little Mrs. Sommers feeling important and wealthy, she considers how to invest her money, feeling that she must carefully allocate her funds. During the night, she thinks of a sensible use for the money, but Mrs. Mallard decision …show more content…
In Kate Chopin's short story, "A Pair of Silk Stockings," Mrs. Sommers spends a day luxuriating in her freedom and in the enjoyment of having money to spend on her. At the end of the afternoon, when she yet has some money in her purse, Mrs. Sommers enters a theater in order to watch a play, which mean this theme is pretty much meaning even though you are having a rough life once you get a blessing enjoy it. In "The Story of an Hour," how you tell someone what happened is almost more important than what actually happened. The biggest concern isn't whether someone lives or dies, it's how you tell a person with a weak heart bad news without killing her. In other words, communication or news can be lethal. Surprising information doesn't just have the power to shock – it can actually kill someone. In this case, the surprise that a husband isn't dead after all is more deadly than a railroad accident. Ideas have to be communicated carefully, with preparation and delicacy. Otherwise, the listener may very well end up dead. At first, freedom seems like a terrible thing to Mrs. Mallard, who's restricted in lots of ways: through her marriage, by her bad heart, and even inside her home, which she doesn't leave during "The Story of an Hour." On the other hand, though, she has considerable freedoms as an upper-class, married lady. She can tell freedom's coming for her, and she dreads it. Once it arrives, though, it fills her with an overpowering joy. Yet, she experiences this mental and emotional freedom while being confined to a room. As soon as she leaves that room, the freedom she'd only just barely begun to understand is taken away from her. The events in "The Story of an Hour" happen quickly, and the author herself does not mince words in relaying them. Yet it seems like life can change drastically, and a person can change dramatically, in under an hour. Mrs. Mallard spends less than an hour processing the news