A Story

in the story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The story goes thus that her husband Brently, who is in the railway, is killed in an accident, while her sister, Josephine Brently's friend, Richards, come to console her, as she is a heart patient. She reconciles with the situation but then suddenly Mr. Brently appears on the door. This sudden appearance of her husband causes cardiac arrest and kills her in her own house where the story takes place. Mrs. Mallard is the heroin of the story…

This short story anthology is a collection of stories, which show step by step plot driven stories that follow traditional plot, but also being bad and dark, leaving the reader with a disturbing image, which does not replicate what many short stories are written about today. The stories I choose to include in my anthology are: “Where are you going Where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oates, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, “The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill, “The Things They…

In the short story The Warm Space, readers are informed that human beings are no longer the main source on Earth. The story begins with a man name Jason, who volunteer to complete a mission away from his family, in order for his child to be proud of him in a near future. The story mentions that Jason was one of the few human in the ship, most of them were cyborgs. It mentions how Jason would be treated poorly and with disgust because he was human. Jason was told not to touch nor to move anything…

Gothic stories are littered with gruesome descriptions because their stories are meant to inflict horror in the reader. In this story, these descriptions include the narrator's thoughts as well as when he is doing something that would be disturbing to most readers. The first example of the gothic element, grotesque, would be when the narrator kills Pluto. One night, after returning home drunk, the narrator grasps the cat by its throat and with a pen knife, cut out one of its eyes. “When reason…

The short story “The Story of An Hour” written by Kate Chopin is about a woman, Josephine, whose husband supposedly died. She was happy because that meant she could be free. But in the end, her husband burst through the doors and in that moment, the little bit of life that Josephine had left inside of her was drawn out. After that sight, she collapsed and passed away on the spot. Throughout the story, Chopin uses many literary devices such as personification, metaphor, and simile. One…

“The story of an hour” is a tale of love, death and acceptance. The kind of love people search for is seeing someone’s flaws and accepting them and not wanting to be with anybody else at the end of the day. Even though she had to take care of him a lot and couldn’t live her life for her, she loved Mr. Mallard dearly. When she heard the news of her beloved husband “She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and…

In the short story A & P, a cashier sees three girls that are wearing just swim suits buying snacks. There's the “leader” and two “followers”. The cashier thinks one of them are cute and watches where they go in the store. The three girls came to his cash register and the manager came over and warned the girls next time they come in they need clothes on. The cashier trying to impress the girl quit on the spot but the girl didn't notice. When he left to go outside to find her, they were nowhere…

3. One recurrent theme in feminist literature is the concept of freedom as an elusive force, which is never ultimately achieved to the point of satisfaction. Discuss this theme as it relates to The Story of an Hour or The Yellow Wallpaper. Within Chopin's The Story of an Hour the nature of freedom definitely seems to be regarded as an elusive force which only seemed obtainable after the main character thought she was free from her marriage and husband. Louise’s marriage obviously seems to…

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin portrays the meaning of how love can kill when the one you love dies. Mrs.Mallard, the main character, is happy because she is free from her husband and only has to live for herself. In lines eleven and twelve the narrator said “When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone,” meaning that she went to grieve by herself due to her husband’s passing. Then in line fifty-three Mrs. Mallard says to herself “Free! Body and soul free!”…

In many of the stories we have read in class there seems to be a common theme amongst a few of them. The theme that is noticed is that of escapism. Escapism is the tendency to look for a distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy. In a few of the stories there is at least one moment of self-imposed escape for the characters. The characters seem to try and escape either mentally or physically or both. From Sammy in A&P, to the…