Kate Chompin's The Story Of An Hour

Kate Chompin’s writing “The Story of An Hour” is truly a literary feminist study. This story was first published in 1894 and documents the reactions of a woman who finds out that her husband is dead. Louise Mallard is devastated. It is hard to talk about “The Story of an Hour” without talking about when the conclusion of the story. When the story begins, Richard and Josephine are contemplating the task of having to tell Louise Mallard that her beloved husband, Bentley Mallard, is dead. Josephine begins to give Louise hints of his death, as opposed to coming out with it suddenly. Josephine knows that coming right out with it will kill Louise, especially since she already has a weak heart. What the naked yes does not see is that Louise …show more content…
She sees her self-worth and determination begin to soar at an incredible rate. She begins to feel good about herself. This is not to say that she did not have all those things when Bentley was with her, but it is something about that spirit of independency that you began to really get to know who you are and how you function as a person. What I say to this is that you have to get to know who you are before you can let anyone else know who you. Get to know that person that is buried inside of you first, before you try and give yourself over to someone else to nurture and bring it out of you. When she embraces her freedom, she continually says “free”. The fear she once had in her is now replaced with excitement and acceptance of herself. She now looks in the mirror and views herself as a goddess. This is something that is new to her and she has began the process of embracing that newness that come to her. Again, this is not to indicate that she did not love her husband. We know this because she mentioned that she missed the way that he used to look at her and make her feel