"The Story of an Hour" is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1894. The short story talking about a woman, Louise Mallard, who locked herself in her room after hearing the death of her husband and the series of emotions her endured. Ironically，Mallard finally died of her heart trouble when she saw her husband back. Especially the foreshadowing and irony make the story really wonderful. Though Mallard’s thinking, the author showed married women’s self-struggle at that time.
To be honest, I don’t know who is Kate Chopin at the beginning. So I search some information about her in the Internet. Afterward, I knew that she is a very famous feminist author and one of the leading writers of her time. There are many excellent short stories and …show more content…
We can find some clues from the performance when she heard her husband's death. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance.” Generally, the wife will feel very sad and may lost the hope of live when she heard her husband’s death. Surprisingly, Louise Mallard did not show too much sorrow at that time. And when she face to the window，she saw a fresh and pleasant scenery. As for me, even the sunshine will seem annoying when I felt sad. So we can guess Louise Mallard might has some different thinking in the following. And the description of the scenery such as “blue sky ” may metaphor for the new beginning of her life. When I read that she yelling “Free, free, free!”, I guess whether she hate her husband or her husband mistreat her? But to my surprise, according to Louise Mallard’s description, her husband is a tender person and doted her. Then I felt more confuse. What made a wife felt happy when she lost her tender husband? I found the answer in the 14 paragraph: “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.” It means in Louise Mallard’s mind, marriage is a kind of constraint and she may not deeply love her husband. She did not want to live for anyone else and she was happy to regain her own identity. People would not call her “Mrs. Mallard” anymore. However, she was died in the end and lost her freedom again. In my opinion, the sentence which an best embody the feminism in this article is: “A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.” Every woman has her own identity, right and value in the society. They are not whose accessories. Men and
To be honest, I don’t know who is Kate Chopin at the beginning. So I search some information about her in the Internet. Afterward, I knew that she is a very famous feminist author and one of the leading writers of her time. There are many excellent short stories and …show more content…
We can find some clues from the performance when she heard her husband's death. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance.” Generally, the wife will feel very sad and may lost the hope of live when she heard her husband’s death. Surprisingly, Louise Mallard did not show too much sorrow at that time. And when she face to the window，she saw a fresh and pleasant scenery. As for me, even the sunshine will seem annoying when I felt sad. So we can guess Louise Mallard might has some different thinking in the following. And the description of the scenery such as “blue sky ” may metaphor for the new beginning of her life. When I read that she yelling “Free, free, free!”, I guess whether she hate her husband or her husband mistreat her? But to my surprise, according to Louise Mallard’s description, her husband is a tender person and doted her. Then I felt more confuse. What made a wife felt happy when she lost her tender husband? I found the answer in the 14 paragraph: “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.” It means in Louise Mallard’s mind, marriage is a kind of constraint and she may not deeply love her husband. She did not want to live for anyone else and she was happy to regain her own identity. People would not call her “Mrs. Mallard” anymore. However, she was died in the end and lost her freedom again. In my opinion, the sentence which an best embody the feminism in this article is: “A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.” Every woman has her own identity, right and value in the society. They are not whose accessories. Men and