Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

A woman's role in society is ever-changing. For many year's women were subjected to strict societal norms, ideals and were defined by the male figures in their lives. Gender roles and relations still make themselves apparent in society's perpetuating inequality, whether through traditional beliefs adapted over the years or societal norms embedded into all aspects of life, including literature. As time passes, women have striven to set their own standards and are now able to stand unapologetically tall in society. Many different factors have aided in allowing women to rebel and evolve against conformity, one significant element being literature. More specifically, literature that breaks barriers for women in allowing their portrayal to defy degrading roles and literature that brings the expectations of women in society to light.

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

Everyone who reads a story will interpret things slightly different than the person who reads it before or after him or her. This idea plays out with most every story, book, song, and movie. These interpretations create conflict and allow people to discuss different ideas and opinions. Without this conflict of thought there is no one devoting time to debate the true meaning of a text. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” tells about a woman who is informed of her husbands death, processes the emotions, and becomes content with this new status as an individual person – losing all the expectations that society expected her to live by within a marriage. This story however is written in a way that the reader has the final interpretation of the text. There are many different interpretations on not only the reason for the main character’s death, but also on the overwhelming emotions that she faces.

In the “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, is about pleasure of freedom and the oppression of marriage. Just like in Kate Chopin’s story, inside most marriages, even the ones that seem to be the happiest, one can be oppressed. Even though, one might seem to be happy deep inside they miss the pleasure of freedom and living life to the fullest. Just like, in this story Mrs. Mallard feels trapped and when she hears about her husband’s death she first feels distraught, but ultimately realizes that she has gained her freedom. This news leads her to an inner battle within herself, as she tries to keep those feelings from coming out. The story culminates when she dies of a heart attack, because she realizes that her husband is not dead and she would be returning to her old pointless existence. This story has many great literary elements that keep the story interesting throughout its plot, by using great foreshadowing and symbolism.

Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor discusses many topics and insights that can be found in literature. Foster explains how each are used and the purposes they serve while providing numerous examples. Many of Foster’s insights can be found in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” which was written during a time in history when women were often restricted by society and marriage. The story speaks of a woman who felt freed from the burden of marriage when she thought her husband died, only to die the moment she realized he was actually alive. Foster’s insights about weather, heart disease, and flight that are evident in “The Story of An Hour” greatly influence the story’s interpretation in several ways.

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She didn’t know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air. Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been.

Opener- Every individual takes a diverse path when facing the loss of a loved one. Whether it is sobbing your heart out or being in a state of panic and pure shock. Controlling idea- However Louis Mallard has a different reaction to the news of her husbands passing. Plot summary- Her sister Josephine informed her that her husband has been allegedly killed in a train accident. She then locks herself in her bedroom, in misery, all alone. Sitting in a “comfortable, roomy armchair” (Chopin 1) she begins to consider what her life will be like now that her husband has passed on. The grief she feels at the beginning eventually morphs into a joy that will later be the implied collapse of her own death. Main Claim- In Kate Chopin’s acclaimed short

In Kate Chopin’s Story of an Hour the reader receives a glimpse of many forms of irony, in the setting and in the story in general. The story opens in the home of the Mallards, where Mrs. Mallard just learned of the death of her husband. The story is set during an age where women were dependent on their husbands to care for them.

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin is an example of a strained romantic relationship and the quest for identity. Mrs. Mallard has a romantic yet strained love with her presumbably dead husband. It is strained because she, "had loved him--sometimes." but,"often, she had not". This is because she felt his assertion and domanice was used to control and trap her. In assuming that she was free from this, she began to see herself in the future having "all sorts of days that would be her own" and her new identity that would come with it.

The story, “The Story of An Hour” was written by Kate Chopin. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850. She wrote several stories for kids and adults. The story took place in Mr. Louis’ and Mrs. Mallard’s home in nineteen century. The major characters of the story were Mr. Louis the husband of Mrs. Mallard, Josephine, Mrs. Mallard’s sister and Mr. Richards, Mr. Louis’ friend. The conflicts were between Mrs. Mallard and her husband Mr. Louis.

Kate Chopin’s “The story of an Hour” tells the story of a woman who has recently discovered her husband has passed away in a train accident. This story mainly focuses on the evolving emotions of Mrs. Mallard after hearing of her husband’s untimely death. Through the use of literary devices the author is able to touch the feelings of the reader and allow them to connect with the main character's perspective and emotional responses. I believe Kate Chopin wrote this story to show the severeness of the oppression that women face in their marriages. I think she believes that wives should have unique and distinct identities that differ from their husbands. This story is set in the late 19th century, a time where there were very significant gender

My thought or opinion about the theme of this story would be that Mrs. Mallard didn’t really love her husband and she would be happy to move on since she felt that she was free the reason I think about it like this is because when Mrs. Mallard gets the news from her sister Josephine, She was shocked when she told her about the death of her husband she went to her room and thought about what happened.

The story of an Hour follows a pretty traditional method. In the story, Chopin acts as a widowed Louise Mallard who overcomes issues with marriage, female independence, and love. Mrs. Mallard is presented as a strong but compassionate character. When she finds out that her husband died in a train accident she deals with inconsistent emotions of her husband’s death. Louise knows that she will grieve her husband's death, but she also looked forward to many

Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour strikes me as a very feminist short story in the way that the text tells of a woman, Mrs. Mallard, whom through her sister, and a friend of her husband’s, hears of her husband's accidental death by railroad accident. Mrs. Mallard shows her grief openly as she is expected to, however, upon reflection in seclusion with proper thought to her new found situation and in her private analysis concludes that while she loved her husband in a way considered at the time an acceptable level for a marriage, she was treated as owned property with no real identity of her own as shown by the author's avoidance of the use of her first name until toward the conclusion of the story after her eventual acceptance and jubilation

In the past many decades the definition of what a marriage means changed dramatically in some areas. For the author of both stories, Kate Chopin, she wanted the reader to get something out of the story. She likes to explore all types of themes in her stories such as, racism, the roles of women, and adultery. With these themes and messages she struggled to have most of her stories published. In many of her stories she passed along these messages through the manner of a marriage. In her short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree 's Baby” she showed just how different marriages could be as well as how similar they can be. Chopin portrays the lives of the main characters, Louise Mallard from “The Story of An Hour” and Desiree Aubigny