A Story

Emotions can really make people do unwise decisions. In the story “The Story of an Hour” the main character Louise Mallard finds out that her husband was involved in a railroad accident. She has heart issues and any shock or other emotions could damage her heart causing more health problems. Josephine, her sister, was the one to tell her about the death of Mallard’s husband, Brentley. Josephine had to explain her slowly and carefully so that Louise’s condition does not get any worse. Right…

In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Louise Ballard moves from hearing word of her husband Brently’s alleged death, to her own premature death. A literal and symbolic demise of a woman with a troubled heart, over a brief sixty minutes. Amid both incidents, Louise contemplates and embraces the rewarding opportunities of a husband-free life. It’s not the usual grief-stricken reaction a reader would anticipate a new widow to exhibit, especially in a short story set in a conventional…

The challenges life brings often leaves us questioning ourselves, however, these challenges not only help us better understand ourselves but also the life we live. The short story The Giraffe written by Mauro Senesi motivates me, shows me to stay confident and has taught me to step out of my comfort zone in my everyday life. In The Giraffe, Ronaldino is determined and does not give up on his goal, which gave me motivation for my everyday life. “there wasn’t a house or a stall high enough for it…

eyes. Highly respected and working with many different people on a regular basis paled to the exposure Japes enjoyed with literally hundreds of thousands of patrons during his hoteliers life giving him a distinctive background. A relatively mundane story to Japes concerning hotel behavior triggered…

Louise Mallard, who learns suddenly, but gently because her heart disease, of her husband’s death in “The Story of an Hour.” Even though Mrs. Mallard loves her husband, she welcomes the new change in her life, represented by the open window she gazes out of, which is a symbol for her newly found identity as an independent woman of the 19th century. Chopin uses the theme of love to push her story, but the Mallard’s relationship is very complicated in terms of what kind of love they share. After…

If there is one person in “The Story of an Hour” that demonstrates the feeling of freedom, it would be Mrs. Mallard. She experiences freedom for what seems to be the first time for about half of the story. “The Story of an Hour” is a fictional short story written by Kate Chopin. The protagonist, Mrs. Mallard, is a young woman with heart problems, and her sister Josephine has to break it as carefully as possible to her that her husband has died in a railroad accident. When Mrs. Mallard finally…

Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour is one of selfishness and freedom. In the story, Louise Mallard, who has a heart condition, is informed of the tragic death of her husband Brently who worked for the railroad. Louise’s sister Josephine broke the news to her carefully with the presence of Richards, who was one of Brently’s good friends. Mrs. Mallard does not take the news very well and she shuts herself in her room to cry alone. However, once she has mourned the loss of her husband, a great…

social class. Marriages can become abusive in any social class. Zora Neale Hurston and Kate Chopin show this in their short stories. A close examination of the way Delia, the protagonist of “Sweat”, and Louise Mallard, the protagonist of “The Story of an Hour”, react to their encounters with unhappy marriages demonstrates that the authors use both short stories to tell similar stories about the different ways unhappy marriages can effect a person. First, Delia endures her unhappy marriage…

The story Marigolds tells about the loss of innocence in a young girl. The author, Eugenia Collier, wrote about a young girl named Lizabeth living during the Great Depression. Lizabeth faces challenges, and realizes how things can change. She starts to see beauty where she didn’t before. This is where Lizabeth starts to mature and stops with all of her childish antics. Lizabeth plants her own marigolds, turning from a child, to a young woman. Lizabeth is growing up in poverty, and she’s angry…

Unlike today, woman typically did not express their true inner feelings. In Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour”, a woman rejoices with the thought of her husband no longer being around. His death results in her realization of freedom of which the excitement possesses her and makes it easy for her to embrace. Ultimately, the excitement kills her. In the beginning of the short story, we learn that Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble. Mrs. Mallard; physical heart troubles symbolize her…