Hour

“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!”…

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…

men. Therefore, women were strictly confined to being housewives. Furthermore, Kate Chopin, an 1890s author, wrote many stories based off of the following themes: women’s revolt against conformity and self-discovery. For instance, “The Story of an Hour” also depicts these themes. Louise Mallard, who suffers from a weak heart, appears to live a psychologically languorous and insipid life until she is informed of her husband’s apparent death. This news is confirmed by husband’s friend, Richard,…

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…

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 19th century. Chopin uses…

In Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of An Hour”, our main character deals with the joy of happiness for her newfound freedom when she finds out her husband died. Most women in her situation would fear for the future without a husband but Mrs. Mallard felt “fresh and alive” (235). Why is she so relieved that her husband died? Does this mean that she is a cruel woman? Although the character shows signs of insensitivity, she is actually someone many can sympathize with mainly because of…

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…

Kate Chopin's The Story of An Hour makes effective use of only a few pages to embody a woman's perspective into marriage during the 1800s. In the short story, Chopin depicts the life of a married woman through an omnipresent narration and allows us, as the readers, to obtain additional insight that is unknown to the stories other characters. Through the use of this type of narration we are able to develop an understanding of the unhappiness Mrs. Mallard has experienced with being married to her…

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…

The Story of an Hour In the beginning of the story we learn that Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble and so her sister Josephine and her friend Richards must break the news carefully to her about her husband’s death. Richards had heard about a railroad disaster when he was at the newspaper office and learned that Mrs. Mallard’s husband Bently was on the top of the list of those who were killed. Mrs. Mallard begins sobbing when Josephine tells her of Bently’s death and goes upstairs to be alone in…