'The Story Of An Hour' By Kate Chopin

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, is a story exactly as the title describes it. A matter of events that take place and change the story within hours. Louise Mallard, is a troubled housewife soon to be widowed and suffering heart troubles. Just alone in the first few sentences into the story, the introductions tone is quick paced and with a small hint of suspense. The news is broken to Mrs. Mallard about her husband’s tragic death in the first sentence of the story. A mixture of emotions are about to take toll on Mrs. Mallard which will affect the development for the entirety of the story. It is filled with a ton of literary elements and the most drastic one being irony. The whole story is ironic and full of surprises that need to be analyzed in profundity to understand the meaning behind it. The typical reaction to finding out the death of a loved one comes to a surprise finding hard to …show more content…
Her character suffers a health condition, has to be told things with delicacy, and the news of her husband’s passing are all enough to shatter the woman. Those main points are highlighted within a sentence and can foreshadow what development this story will take throughout its course. “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air” (Chopin 179). Furthermore, once Mrs. Mallard was in her room readers learn what she sees, smells, and feels when looking out that window. The quote is strong because although death has arrived in her house, outside that roof, life continues on. In addition, this quote relates to that “new spring life” Mrs. Mallard will quickly start to realize within herself. She will now break out of a shell of confinement, thus giving her