Story Of An Hour Analysis Essay

The Story of an Hour Analysis The Story of an Hour Analysis The story of an hour takes place in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mallard. The home of the house seems to be somewhat confining, yet it keeps Mrs. Mallard hidden from the outside world. In my opinion, the home is shown as a place where the characters are kept safe from the outside world. The story takes place with the women who are fine with being in the home, and then the story shows that man of the house is the one who leaves his home and goes into the outside world, then after he leaves the women in the house he dies. Mrs. Mallard’s initial reaction to her husband’s death was at first normal for a widow to hear that her spouse has died, but then her tears of grief slowly turn into happy tears of a feeling as though she is not constrained by her marriage anymore. Mrs. Mallard’s reaction of hearing that her …show more content…
Mallard died from a “joy that kills.” The audience can infer that Mrs. Mallard actually did not die from the joy of seeing her husband alive, but rather the shock and dejection from seeing her deceased husband walk through the front door of their home. During the events in this story, the friends and family of Mrs. Mallard tried to keep her from being overly grieved by her husband’s death, yet the friends ultimately lost her to what they had perceived as a broken heart. This greatly adds onto the irony because while they were focused on helping her get through such tough news, they had no idea of how elated Mrs. Mallard was to hear the news of her husband’s passing. Her friends stayed ignorant of Mrs. Mallard’s feelings even after the very end when she died. The plot of this story can be looked at as just a woman who is glad that her husband died because she felt constrained to the bounds of marriage, but if you look at the finer details, there is so much more hidden depth to The Story of an Hour by Kate