When someone close to a person dies, usually a person is sad for awhile. It takes a long time to recover from a death of a loved one. There are thousands of stories about someone loved one dying and them trying to recoup from the whole process. Well in a certain story there is a plot twist. We have a wife who is joyful that her husband has passed away on her. She sees a very bright future instead of a future of sad and gloomy. There are three messages in the story of Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin.
Freedom is the first message from the story The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin. Mrs. Mallard hears about the death of her husband, the first thing that does is go to a room all by herself. She does this because she doesn’t want anyone to witness …show more content…
In under an hour Mrs. Mallard already accepted her husband’s death. It was a very short time span for her to figure out what her future will be like. Mrs. Mallard doesn’t want to think if it is going to be a bright future or a dreadful future. In the story “Story of an Hour” Chopin noted, “She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her.”(12) Trying not to waste time and look back at the past, Mrs. Mallard saw years in front of her that her life will absolutely just be hers. The title of this story tell us there are a lot of events that happens within an hour. Ello Themes did an analyze on the title and comments, “It speaks to everything, from the belief that Mr. Mallard is dead, the anticipation of her new life not characterized by being married, to her eventual death at the realization she is still very much "imprisoned" in her marriage since Mr. Mallard is actually alive.”(Themes) Within an hour of the time she was told her husband was dead, she made plans for her future. Then after those plans were made they were crushed when he husbands walks through the door. Time is critical in this story and it gives us an example of what all can happen in an
Freedom is the first message from the story The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin. Mrs. Mallard hears about the death of her husband, the first thing that does is go to a room all by herself. She does this because she doesn’t want anyone to witness …show more content…
In under an hour Mrs. Mallard already accepted her husband’s death. It was a very short time span for her to figure out what her future will be like. Mrs. Mallard doesn’t want to think if it is going to be a bright future or a dreadful future. In the story “Story of an Hour” Chopin noted, “She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her.”(12) Trying not to waste time and look back at the past, Mrs. Mallard saw years in front of her that her life will absolutely just be hers. The title of this story tell us there are a lot of events that happens within an hour. Ello Themes did an analyze on the title and comments, “It speaks to everything, from the belief that Mr. Mallard is dead, the anticipation of her new life not characterized by being married, to her eventual death at the realization she is still very much "imprisoned" in her marriage since Mr. Mallard is actually alive.”(Themes) Within an hour of the time she was told her husband was dead, she made plans for her future. Then after those plans were made they were crushed when he husbands walks through the door. Time is critical in this story and it gives us an example of what all can happen in an