Story Of An Hour Setting Analysis

Novels, short stories, and most other forms of literature have one thing in common, a setting; a place and/or date which sets the whole story, the setting gives the reader an understanding of how and why the character thinks and acts. The setting of a story places the mood, an author 's influence on the whole story and shows the type of society the characters live in and how it reflects on them. The Story of an Hour is a prime example of how setting can limit a character 's behavior and how it creates an internal conflict within the character.
Kate Chopin, at 15 years old was married and by 23 she had six children, Kate and her husband were well involved in their community but when Kate’s husband died, she took care of her husband’s business …show more content…
The setting immediately sets a gloomy mood by the death of Mrs.Mallard 's husband and her reaction towards how she feels. In the nineteenth century women did not have much to live for except to get cook and clean, being that it was a very male-dominated world at the time it was very difficult for a women to be independent, women had no choice but to accept and Louise Mallard was one these women. Being told her husband is dead was devastating to Louise but also liberating, instead of publicly mourning her husband 's supposed death, she goes into her bedroom and yells “Free” multiple times; she didn’t want her husband to die but unknowingly she did want freedom and she got it, just not in the most happiest of ways. Louise going to her bedroom is the author’s of using imagery setting, a place of interment, Louise lets out her most private thoughts in a room she shared with her husband and the window in the room can be seen as an opportunity for freedom. Louise’s grief in an instance turns into joy, no longer is she bound to the subservient conventions and can finally care about the one person she couldn’t,