Heart disease

Suffering from severe “heart trouble (1)”, Louise is already in a delicate state when she hears this grave message from her sister Josephine along with Brently’s friend, Richards. Though now she is obviously filled with grief, her reaction doesn’t suggest any hatred, and Louise…

In Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour”, a married woman receives news of her husband’s death. The reader follows Mrs. Mallard through her unusual emotional reaction to her husband’s death. In this time period of this story, the late 1800s, it was not unusual for women to marry young and take on all of the household responsibilities. Not many people cared whether the women loved their husbands or their families; the primary focus was on their purpose in the household. The language…

“The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin represents marriage in a negative view. It does this by exposing the reader to a woman who experiences joy at the news of her husband’s death. This is most clearly seen through the language of the story that Chopin uses. The narrator of the story relates what is observed by using prose, but when the emotions of Louise are described, the words tend to always be powerful. This turn of language suggests a more interesting inner-life the character lives that is…

news of her husband’s death in a train accident. Louise Mallard is saddened by her husband’s accident and it affects her health, changes her personality, moral, and even causes death. As the story unfolds, the readers discover that Mrs. Mallard’s heart troubles may have resulted from the stress caused by her reaction to her position in a male-dominated household and to a less-than-loving marriage. For example, in paragraph 8, Chopin says the young woman’s face “bespoke repression” in paragraph…

Trait Definition Optimism is defined as the attitude of anticipating positive outcomes and that wishes or aims will ultimately be fulfilled (Optimism, 2007). Optimistic individuals also believe that things happen for the best and despite the circumstances, there will be a successful outcome. Referred as a positive mental thinking, individuals with optimism are more likely to have positive expectation and view life events more positively (He et al, 2013). Individual who poses this trait have…

describing the feelings of a married woman and feminine identities in late 19th century, and helps the reader to have a better understanding of the married life of a woman in that period of time. In this story, Louise Mallard; the main character with a heart condition, hears that her husband is died in a train accident. At first she is sad, but when she is left alone in her room, she begins to feel the true joy and freedom by imagining that her husband’s death will ultimately free her to live…

In a time where women were no more than housewives, Kate Chopin writes of a 19th century woman who discovers a freedom so few women of her time have. This lady is 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…

Comparison of Kate Chopin’s Literature The 1800s served as a turning point for the role of women in society. Nearing the end of the century, the idea that women should not work outside the home began to be challenged, and women started to hold jobs of their own (Fischer et al., 2000). Great opportunity was given to unmarried women, as they gained independence in living apart from their families (Fischer et al., 2000). Women began to fight for their independence, opposing the idea of only…

In “The Story of an Hour”, Mrs. Mallard’s sudden death when she finds her husband at the door is misinterpreted by her doctors: “they said that she had died of heart disease – of joy that kills” (9). The use of an omniscient narrator has been used to channel the view and expectations of the patriarchal society as well. For instance, Wang points out that, “Louise lives as Mrs. Mallard in life and dies as Brently Mallard’s…

Mallard experience two shocks in one hour, from knowing her husband’s sudden death in a train accident, to her husband’s return home unexpectedly, to make her die suddenly of a heart attack in astonishment. Through a simple storyline, The story of an hour is rich in symbolisms an contain serious subject. This story has meaningful exquisite language, perspective transformation naturally and is innovative, meaningful with a distinctive…