Hour

The two were blissfully happy and planned on getting married soon. One night Johnny went out and a few hours later Simma received a strange call from him. The line was full of static and his voice sounded rushed. According to her account he said, “I just want you to know that I love you, and I’ll never be mean to anyone again.” She tried to ask him what was wrong but the line went dead. A few hours later she received another call, this time from Johnny’s mother. She told Simma that Johnny had…

In Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour,” a woman with heart difficulties is married to a man. Within their relationship, there were not any conflicts mentioned in the story apart from the heart condition Mrs. Mallard suffered. One day, a terrible accident occurred that involved her husband and Mrs. Mallard’s sister was troubled about how to break the news to Mrs. Mallard. Despite the news, she took the news fairly well and was joyous. Although, what made her “die of happiness” was…

Love, Freedom and Peace Kate Chopin is an American writer, born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850. She is the only child, of five, to live past the age of twenty-five. Her father died when she was only five years old so, she was raised and taught by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. They were all strong and independent women who influenced a lot of her literature. Her adolescent life plays a major role into her literature and she dealt with a lot of trauma. After her father was killed…

In the short story “At the ’Cadian Ball,” Kate Chopin depicts a seemingly perfect society with guidelines, which are articulated and unspoken, that binds everyone to their place in the hierarchy. Many of these guidelines, are made to prevent any form of free thought. They severely impede women’s lives in particular. Clarisse and Calixta are two women who struggle during this time to find and act on their ideas and thoughts. Through their personalities and their interactions with one another,…

the 1960’s that Chopin’s novel attained the positive recognition for its addressment of feminist ideals that she desired (Sprinkle). Roughly five years prior to the release of The Awakening, Chopin published a short story entitled “The Story of an Hour,” a work critics later described as a miniature of her novel due to the similarities in feminist topics. The story follows Louise Mallard as she…

been doing for more than 60 years; rising in the middle of the night to attend Vigils and to pray together by chanting Psalms and doing the readings of the Divine Office. That night, an even more improbable person participated in the Liturgy of the Hours—a convinced atheist. I was that unbeliever. I felt completely at home, as I had participated in the same routine more than 30 years earlier when I had joined the Dominican Order as a young man beginning studies for the priesthood. On this…

and Chopin represents this into some of the imagery and symbols that are portrayed in some of her works. She died in 1904 leaving her voice in her works (Wyatt). Some of her works include: The Awakening, “A Respectable Woman”, and “The Story of an Hour” (Wyatt). In the short story “Desiree’s Baby”, Kate Chopin uses characters, themes, and symbols to explore female independence in order to produce a change. The characters in “Desiree’s Baby” play a large role in displaying different scenarios…

that are understandable or significant to the reader. Authors tell their stories on two different levels, a literal level and a figurative level. Allegory is a symbolic meaning used to reveal a moral truth in the story. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, used three examples of allegory-the locations within the house, the protagonist’s heart problem and an open window. First, the two different locations used within the story represented two different feelings the main character Louise Mallard…

Nora of Henry Ibsen's "A Doll's Life" and Mrs. Millard of Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" are two women that put their aspirations for personal happiness aside to be the perfectly obedient wives. Mrs. Millard forfeited her happiness to be a supporting and loving wife regardless of what makes her happy. This is also evident with Nora, who married a man that has never truly appreciated her happiness or contribution to the life they have built together. Deep down these women want to figure…

university students are working far more hours than students of previous generations. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2011, seventy-two percent of American undergraduates worked while pursuing higher education (Davis, 2012). Other studies support this statistic by also reporting that over eighty percent of undergraduates in the workforce (King, 2006, as cited in Tessema, Astani, and Ready, 2014). Reasons for this increase of student’s work hours include the rising cost of…