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Kate Chopin is an American author who published two books and over one hundred short stories in the 1890s. Many of these short stories place emphasis on women breaking free of conformity. This theme Chopin portrays in two of her short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree's Baby.” These stories describe women with similar difficulties occurring in their marriages. Kate Chopin presents similar views on marriage throughout the short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree’s Baby.” Both marriages have toxic characteristics that become unhealthy for both of the women in them. In the short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree’s Baby” both of the women have loss of love marriages. In “The Story of an Hour” Louise Mallard learns that her …show more content…
In “The Story of an Hour” Louise feels overpowered by her husband. She says, “There would be no more powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have the right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature” (631). Louise feels her husband forced her to follow him blindly. She feels relieved that she can make her own choices and decisions now that he is dead. In “Desiree’s Baby” Desiree cares about her husband's happiness more than her own. Her purpose in life is to make him happy so he treats her and the slaves like human beings. She says, “This was what made the gentle Desiree so happy, for she loved him desperately. When he frowned she trembled, but loved him” (2). Desiree’s relationship with Armand is profusely unhealthy. Marriages are supposed to exude the feeling of an equal partnership between two people. A wife should not feel frightened of her husband's anger. This fear displays characteristics of an abusive marriage. Both of the protagonists feel they are being subdued by their
Chopin
Kate Chopin is an American author who published two books and over one hundred short stories in the 1890s. Many of these short stories place emphasis on women breaking free of conformity. This theme Chopin portrays in two of her short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree's Baby.” These stories describe women with similar difficulties occurring in their marriages. Kate Chopin presents similar views on marriage throughout the short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree’s Baby.” Both marriages have toxic characteristics that become unhealthy for both of the women in them. In the short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree’s Baby” both of the women have loss of love marriages. In “The Story of an Hour” Louise Mallard learns that her …show more content…
In “The Story of an Hour” Louise feels overpowered by her husband. She says, “There would be no more powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have the right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature” (631). Louise feels her husband forced her to follow him blindly. She feels relieved that she can make her own choices and decisions now that he is dead. In “Desiree’s Baby” Desiree cares about her husband's happiness more than her own. Her purpose in life is to make him happy so he treats her and the slaves like human beings. She says, “This was what made the gentle Desiree so happy, for she loved him desperately. When he frowned she trembled, but loved him” (2). Desiree’s relationship with Armand is profusely unhealthy. Marriages are supposed to exude the feeling of an equal partnership between two people. A wife should not feel frightened of her husband's anger. This fear displays characteristics of an abusive marriage. Both of the protagonists feel they are being subdued by their