Atmosphere in an Hour
Kate Chopin was born Katherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1850. She departed life on August 22, 1904. Before her departed she became and American known author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is now considered by some scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background. The atmosphere around people can change their mood or tone. In Chopin’s stories she includes a specific atmosphere. Through her writings she shows how women were submissive to men. When Chopin started writing females did not really have a voice, they did what they were told. An analysis of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” shows how the atmosphere can change from grief/sadness, to freedom, and then death, all because of tragic information.
The first atmosphere in Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” revolves around sadness. Mrs. Mallard is sad due to the tragic information of her husband’s death. The death of anyone causes grief, even if it is just for a moment. For Mrs. Mallard this was the case. “She wept once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms” (Chopin 65), showing her devastation. After she wept the storm of grief was over and she went away to her room. …show more content…
Mallard finds freedom in her new single situation. With her being young, she still had a life ahead of her. “There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself” (66). When she became a wife, her life was no longer hers, but her husbands. Although this was a new life, she tried to fight the words of freedom, but she just could not anymore. “She said it over and over under her breath’: ‘Free, free, free” (65). Being free did not mean that she was happy that her husband was dead, but that she felt a relief that she no longer had to answer to anyone and could live life for herself. Yes, Mrs. Mallard had a new-found freedom
Kate Chopin was born Katherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1850. She departed life on August 22, 1904. Before her departed she became and American known author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is now considered by some scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or Catholic background. The atmosphere around people can change their mood or tone. In Chopin’s stories she includes a specific atmosphere. Through her writings she shows how women were submissive to men. When Chopin started writing females did not really have a voice, they did what they were told. An analysis of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” shows how the atmosphere can change from grief/sadness, to freedom, and then death, all because of tragic information.
The first atmosphere in Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” revolves around sadness. Mrs. Mallard is sad due to the tragic information of her husband’s death. The death of anyone causes grief, even if it is just for a moment. For Mrs. Mallard this was the case. “She wept once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms” (Chopin 65), showing her devastation. After she wept the storm of grief was over and she went away to her room. …show more content…
Mallard finds freedom in her new single situation. With her being young, she still had a life ahead of her. “There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself” (66). When she became a wife, her life was no longer hers, but her husbands. Although this was a new life, she tried to fight the words of freedom, but she just could not anymore. “She said it over and over under her breath’: ‘Free, free, free” (65). Being free did not mean that she was happy that her husband was dead, but that she felt a relief that she no longer had to answer to anyone and could live life for herself. Yes, Mrs. Mallard had a new-found freedom