An Hour Story

Story of an hour conveys the feelings of many married women who may not be entirely unhappy in their marriage yet feel restricted in some way. They feel that they could have done so much more had they not married, if they had been without all these restrictions. They could spread their wings and fly to their favorite destinations if they had stayed unmarried. Marriage despite all its so-called bliss is still a very restrictive union that clips a woman's wings sometimes because of the children, sometimes because she is constantly reminded of her wifely and motherly duties and sometimes simply because her husband wouldn't approve.

In “The Story of an Hour” we see Mrs. Louise Mallard receives news of the death of her husband. The

Suspense and adrenaline are the two principal aspects of the short story, “The Story of an Hour.” In the late nineteenth century, a naive, traditional housewife named Louis Mallard faced the struggle of the loss of her husband. Louise ultimately recognized her independence from such a tragedy. Ironically, Mr. Mallard was still alive and Mrs. Mallard had passed away. Many critics debated the “true” cause of Mrs. Mallard’s death.

On the other hand, Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts betray her true feelings and lead the reader to believe that she did not die from joy. Throughout “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts on independence, autonomy, and marriage betray that she did not die from joy, but from having a new life taken from her with her husband’s surprising arrival. First, Mrs. Mallard’s immediate reaction after learning her husband died is obvious grief, but it is soon followed by a newfound sense of independence and it reveals that she could not have died from joy after being so hopeful for a future as a widow. Once she is alone, she delves into her own thoughts and begins to form these feelings that she knows are not appropriate at a time like this. She begins to determine that she is now an independent woman.

In ‘The story of an hour’, it is set in a house in the 1890s, a time when women had little to no rights. Louise was the typical housewife married to the working man. She was to keep the house in order and have dinner ready when the man got home. This confinement and role Louise had to play gives her “heart trouble”. At first when Mr. Mallard is reported dead, Louise weeps suddenly then goes to her room. She spends the next several minutes looking at how free she is now that her husband is gone. The setting of the story affects the context greatly. If it had taken place in the 21st century, Louise might not

Women are taught from a young age that marriage is the end all be all in happiness, in the short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin and the drama “Poof!” by Lynn Nottage, we learn that it is not always the case. Mrs. Mallard from “The Story of an Hour” and Loureen from “Poof!” are different characteristically, story-wise, and time-wise, but share a similar plight. Two women tied down to men whom they no longer love and a life they no longer feel is theirs. Unlike widows in happy marriages Loureen and Mrs., Mallard discover newfound freedom in their respective husband’s deaths. Both stories explore stereotypical housewives who serve their husbands with un-stereotypical reactions to their husband’s deaths.

While science may tell us that marriage can bring a person happiness, Kate Chopin’s “The story of an Hour” though causes reader’s to question this long held onto stance. In “The Story of an Hour” a young wife, Mrs. Louise Mallard, is told by her husbands friend that her husband has died in an accident. Initially Louise is consumed with sorrow for her late husband and decides to go to her room by herself. After staring out the window and having feelings of independence overtake her, Mrs. Mallard leaves her room to go back downstairs only to see the man she was just told a short time ago was dead walk through the door. Upon seeing him Mrs. Mallard drops dead. Chopin uses the character Louise Mallard to introduce the thought that women could be

In “The Story of an Hour” we are taken through a journey. The journey is the thoughts and emotions going through Mrs. Mallards (Louise) mind. The journey only takes an hour, so everything moves at a fast pace. Louise seemed to process the news of her husband’s death without an initial element of disbelief and shock. She goes right into the reaction of grieving for her husband. She quickly begins to feel other emotions. At first she does not understand them. The journey is a way that Louise comes to her final thoughts of freedom. She looks into the future and looks forward to living a long life on her own terms.

In the book the story of an hour, it starts off saying how Mrs. Mallard has a heart condition, and they tried to break the news gently that her husband was now deceased. This task was given to her sister, Josephine. But, it seems as if she didn’t come straight out and tell her. When the story talked about “veiled hints”, which made me think about undercover meanings, or that she was trying to infer something without coming out and saying straight out that her husband was dead. Her husband’s friend had already heard about this news while in the newspaper office when the information about the railroad disaster was first received. His name was on the top of the list for the people that were killed. After hearing about this overwhelming news, she begins sobbing and goes to her room to be alone.

“Story of an Hour” uses Louise Mallard’s repressed life as a wife to elucidate how repression can lead to bottled up depression. Louise Mallard understands the “right” way for women to behave, but her internal thoughts and feelings are anything but correct. This is first illustrated by the initial reaction to her husband’s death, where she cries instead of feeling numb, as she suspects other women would do. The death of her husband acts as a catalyst to alleviate her depression that rooted in her marriage. In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Louise’s heart problem, which shows the extent to which she believes her marriage has trapped her. The author of the story gives a vague description of Mallard’s heart condition just simply calling it a “heart problem” (Choplin 452). This vague description shows how her “heart problem” is both physical and

They was confined with living through a man, a woman was never seen as an equal even in an loving relationship. Woman in this time was basically living there lives through their significant others, they wasn’t expected to live life how they wanted just to live life how their men wanted and would end up loosing their selves in the process. The confinement in the story "the Story of an Hour" portrays that Mrs. Mallard was controlled by this marriage. Even though Mr. Mallard Treated her fairly, and she loved him occasionally, she still wanted and out. She wanted to escape this marriage because she felt like she was being controlled by it and she wanted to be herself . She believed that marriages robes people of independence, she also believed that all women and men oppress one another even if they do it out of the goodness of their heart. Everyone needs a break at some point which is why she was so over joyed that she thought that her husband had died. She felt like she was in control again of her life. Usually persons would just say why not get a divorce, but in that time back in the day divorce wasn’t anything easy. Society back then is also a confinement because it didn’t like change. As we can see that Mrs. Mallard is free different in her conformist society, which is a great taboo. In the story Mrs. Mallard never given a first name throughout the story, Mr. Mallard is given a

In “The Autonomous Female Self and the Death of Louise Mallard in Kate Chopin’s ‘Story of an Hour,’” Mark Cunningham expresses his opinion on how he believes Mrs. Mallard dies in Chopin’s short story. “The Story of an Hour” was written in the late 1890s, during a time when it was controversial for women to be independent. The ending of her story has created somewhat of a dilemma among readers for years. Some people conclude one ending based on the details and clues Chopin wrote throughout the story, while others come up with a totally different opinion. Mark Cunningham writes a brilliant article on his view of the story’s ending, where he clearly conveys his take on Louis Mallard’s death. Although there are many times when he repeats the same information, Cunningham makes good use of textual evidence and authorities, as well as logic, which makes it easy to agree with his claim.

In the short story, “The Story of an Hour,” author Kate Chopin presents the character of Mrs. Louis Mallard. She is an unhappy woman trapped in her discontented marriage. Unable to assert herself or extricate herself from the relationship, she endures it. The news of the presumed death of her husband comes as a great relief to her, and for a brief moment she experiences the joys of a liberated life from the repressed relationship with her husband. The relief, however, is short lived. The shock of seeing him alive is too much for her bear and she dies. The meaning of life and death take on opposite meaning for Mrs. Mallard in her marriage because she lacked the courage to stand up for herself.

The theme of Story Of An Hour I believe the book suggests that marriage, regardless of the good intentions of the people it joins, necessarily results in repression and a loss of freedom.The story plays with both irony and tragedy as the shock that her friends fear will kill Louise restores her freedom, and the joy they anticipate for her is the heartbreak that kills her. The story focuses on the evils inherent in marriage as an institution, not Louise Mallard’s specific relationship, about which we are told very little.

The Story of an Hour is short, yet, contains important examples of gender roles in marriage. They are important because they represent how women felt married in the 19th century due to male dominance that manifested throughout marriages all over the world. In The Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard is a wife that is, at first, seen as distraught, because of her husband’s death. She starts to cry and run to her room, to soon be lifted with the joy that she is now free. It is clear that she felt trapped in the marriage and is now happy that there is no one controlling her any longer. Mrs. Mallard is a prime example of women in marriages in the 19th century, and even some today. Unfortunately, they have to experience sexism from their husbands. Women are dominated by men in marriage and are expected to acquire the stereotypical gender roles.