Essay On Louise's Transformation In Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

The heroine, Mrs. P, has some carries some characteristics parallel to Louise Mallard in “Hour.” The women of her time are limited by cultural convention. Yet, Mrs. P, (like Louise) begins to experience a new freedom of imagination, a zest for life , in the immediate absence of her husband. She realizes, through interior monologues, that she has been held back, that her station in life cannot and will not afford her the kind of freedom to explore freely and openly the emotions that are as much a part of her as they are not a part of Leonce. Here is a primary irony.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” represents a primitive perspective of marriage by presenting the reader with a woman that is thrilled that her husband passed away. This is conveyed through the language used to describe Louise’s emotions as she shifts between numbness and euphoria at her instant individuality. The narrator relates what she sees in simple text, but when her emotions are described, the words are bright and potent. This implies that Louise has an unaffiliated life that is numb to the outside world and her alone time is invaluable to her. The environment surrounding her is only minimally described, but the narrator describes the image in her head as an oasis. The view outside of her room is paradisiacal like her mind, but

In Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour," there is much hatred. The first hatred detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of the death of her husband, Mr. Mallard. Before Louise's reaction is revealed, Chopin turns to how the widow feels by describing the world according to her outlook of it after the bad news. Louise is said to "not hear the story as many women have heard the same." Rather, she accepts it and goes to her room to be alone. Now the person reading starts to see the world through Louise's eyes, a world full of new life.

In “The Story of an Hour”, Louise Mallard was an independent lady who had a weakened heart. Her marriage with Bentley Mallard had evolved into a more practical situation rather than romance. Even though they never had children, all of her needs were taken care of. Bentley was very controlling towards Louise of what she could and couldn’t do; therefore, her emotions were suppressed.

Moreover, "The Story of an Hour", shows that Louise felt her husband's domination through the "powerful will bending her" (14), later she is in "this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being." (15). This last statement indicates this newborn contention in Louise, made only possible by Mr. Mallard's death. In Mr. Mallard's death, Louise finds herself being able to assert herself in unimaginable ways; Mrs. Mallard is no longer limited to the confines of her marriage. Ultimately, all of this new brazenness and freedom is dependent

Louise, like most people, is afraid of the unknown but Louise is a strong and intelligent woman and she quickly came around to the reality of what her life would be like without having the burden of an unhappy marriage to tend to. The ideal of marriage did not sit well with Louis although it is clear that her husband loved her when his face is described as “the face that had never looked save with love upon her.” (Chopin) Her own feelings of love in return are also minimally described and it is clear that she does not share his sentiments Louise says, “She had loved him-Sometimes. Often she had not.” Now that her husband was gone she was able to live for her and that thought excited

In “The Story of an Hour” the main character Louise Mallard suffers from a bad heart, but otherwise, she is young and cute. Louise learned from family members that her husband had just been killed in a railroad disaster. As she grieves alone in her upstairs bedroom, she suddenly is hit with new emotions. She realizes that she did love her husband and he loved her, but what she wants more than anything is to be free. Free to go and do as she pleases without anyone watching over her. Later

Mallard cries dramatically at first, as any other woman at the time would. She then excuses herself to her room to be alone. She sits numb in an armchair facing an open window and begins to think of what her life will now be like; thoughts that both inspire yet frighten her for it is not how a widow in her society should be thinking. There can be debate on whether or not Louise Mallard is a cruel person. She weeps even when she is alone in her room, but one could say it is more of a physical reflex rather than a surge of emotion.

In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, we meet Mrs. Louise Mallard as a newly grieving widow. A woman who has prominent health issues of her own suffering from the physical and mental turmoil of losing a loved one. As her sister, Josephine, and husband’s friend, Richard, broke the news of her husband’s death we find Mallard in a position of conflict with herself. The feeling of despair and abandonment engulfs the main character as she is haunted by this gut feeling of what her life will become without the man who loved her. The climax peaks where Mallard struggles to physically cope with the sorrow that fills her until a sudden shift in the plot suggests somewhat of an epiphany through her break down. Mallard’s perspective goes from mourning to a boisterous celebration of joy within such an instant, her outcry was confused for making herself ill with her mourning. As her sister reached to console her, she met Josephine with quite the contrast of emotions from when we initially met Mallard. A jolt of raw unadulterated joy from the realization that she is in every sense of the word, free. The reaction to her epiphany would suggest an underlying suppression of her true feelings that our main character may have not realized throughout her marriage.

In Kate Chopin’s “Story of an hour,” The main character is described as an obedient housewife. But, as the story progresses and shocking news surfaces about her husband’s death, she begins to revolt against the ideas of the cult of domesticity. The main character Louise follows her husband’s orders and demands while remaining pure and chaste. It is true that this is not enough for her. She has a heart condition which causes her to not handle very large situations well. When the tragic news of her husband’s death arises, the family takes great care to put it on her gently. Once she receives the news, her heart breaks and she locks herself in her room. Staring out the window, trying to comprehend the ews, she realizes that she is now free, and

Louise Mallard is Kate Chopin short story's protagonist. As noted earlier, Louise has a heart trouble during the time when her friends are to break her husband's death news to her. She reacts to the news despite her heart condition with a flood of grief. She quickly retreats to her room which indicates repressiveness which she is accustomed to. She briefly feels guilt out of experiencing joy at the freedom which is brought by the death of her husband. She is later faced with some complex mix of love and resentment emotions which are elicited by the thoughts of Brently's tenderness with absolute control of her life from her husband. She ultimately welcomes her independence which she has newly found and then takes on the newly self-possessed individual's life. This essay will emphasize my argument on how the story shows some aspect of mental change in character, and I will identify where this starts in the character, what happens to cause the change, what the change is, and the consequences of this change for the character.

Louise Mallard is the protagonist of The Story of an Hour. The entire story is about her preservation. Chopin portrays Mrs. Mallard as a woman who is in deep suffering. She is not only suffering from a marriage she is not happy with, but she is also suffering from her medical condition. As if she had not suffered enough, she also puts a threat to her own life. We see this when Josephine is knocking on her door while she refuses to open it (Chopin). What is unknown to Josephine however is that her sister is in fact not suffering but savoring the moment.

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.

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” depicts a picture of a young lady named Louise Mallard that is plagued with two fears. The first fear as stated in (para.1) that she had “heart trouble” of what nature we do not know. The second fear was that she live the rest of her days, mere existence with a man that is cold, non-compassionate, and controlling. She had no way out for Brently Mallard, her husband was in complete control of her life and she was miserable (para 14) “and yet she loved him—sometime”, but, not often. She lived in a sadness that was seen on her face whether in his presence or not.

Mrs. Mallard, or simply Louise is a “frail” and gentle woman, who spends her days serving her husband. But sadness strikes before the first page is turned. A pensive sorrow is evident so a person might be confused when Louise