What Is Louise Mallard's Oppression

In this reading, the narrator talks about the reaction of Mrs. Millard who had heart problems, when she notices of her husband´s death. Louise Mallard is at home with her sister Josephine, when they hear of a rain accident; then Josephine tells Louise that her husband has been killed it in the accident.

     Relationships seem to be the favorite subject of Kate Chopin’s stories. As Margaret Bauer suggests that Chopin is concerned with exploring the “dynamic interrelation between women and men, women and patriarchy, even women and women” (Bauer 146). In “The Story of an Hour” Chopin deals with the subject of marriage. She illustrates the influence of family alliance on individual freedom. According to Wohlpart,“The Story of an Hour” describes the journey of Mrs. Mallard against the Cult of True Womanhood as she slowly becomes aware of her own desires and thus of a feminine self that has long been suppressed”(Wohlpart 2). The Cult of True Womanhood in the XIX century included “purity” and “domesticity”. The former suggested that women must maintain their virtue. The latter – denied them their intellectual and professional capabilities (Papke 12). Being the victim of this Cult, Louise Mallard was a good example of a wife without “her own desires and feminine self”.

Mrs. Louise Mallard never really had any freedom because she married young and was always confined in her home doing wifely duties“‘ Free! Body and soul free!”’she whispered this multiple times. Louise Mallard, has come the realization that her husband's passing was not only tragic, but also a beneficial cutting of her marital ties. The crisis of her grief has given her a new insight on life and she also understands that her marriage has limited her independence and freedom. Mrs. Mallard was very unhappy in her marriage and she barely loved her husband. “‘And yet she had loved him--sometimes”’ Mrs. Mallard was seeking freedom from her marriage because she was unhappy and when she found out her husband died she could feel the freedom she’s always

These pieces of information confirm that Mrs. Mallord is happy to of her husband’s untimely death. The weight of being married is lifted off of her shoulders and she looks forward to the life as Louise again where she can free to do as she please.

Mrs. Mallard felt sad about her husband’s death as he was loving and always being nice to her. She felt depleted but after a while she realized that now she is alone and she can live for herself and he more independent. She can do whatever she wants with no one to stop her that thought made her very happy and

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

Firstly, we, and Louise Mallard herself, expect her to be very upset about her husband, Brently,’s death, and for a little while she is, but soon she comes to believe that she is better off single than married and then only cries because she had started and could not stop. Secondly, she believes her husband dead, but he really is not. Thirdly, her sister believes that she is very upset about her husband’s “death” but she is not and is really celebrating in her room. Lastly, when she dies from the shock of seeing her husband alive again, the doctors proclaim her dead of joy at seeing him alive again, and say that it was because of her heart problems, but she really died of a broken heart. "

Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour reflects the time in which a woman was forced to abide by the wishes of a man. From keeping the home in order to cater to his every want and need, she was degraded of her real potential, resulting in a hatred toward her spouse, the inability to speak and think freely for herself, and the a desire of independence. Throughout the text, Louise Mallard reveals that she is living in the repressive world of male dominance through her reaction to her husband’s “death” and re-arrival, her longing to be free from her current captivity, and her excitement of her new life as her own individual. The Story of an Hour beings with the acknowledgement of Mrs. Mallard’s heart disease and the depressing news of her “deceased” husband.

Mrs. Louise Mallard, the main character from Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” is not the housewife that those around her assume. Although she loves her husband, she is shocked and overwhelmed by the sense of new-found freedom that accompanies her husband’s alleged death. Mrs. Mallard represents the patriarchal control over women of her time, as well as the postulation that a woman could not maintain her independence. Chopin uses Louise Mallard’s reactions to her husband’s supposed death, her subsequent untimely death, and the speculations of those around her to personify the dependent nature that was imposed on women of the turn-of-the-century.

She presents the protagonist to be a married woman, Louise Mallard, experiencing a ‘monstrous joy’ when she hears the tragic news about her dead husband and finishes

glimpse the meaning and fulfillment of her life. “To be fully alive, means to engage in

Mrs. Mallard shows characterization with her mixed emotions being told her husband was killed in a terrible accident. She is happy because she is now free. She gives hints and details of her husband being a controlling man and now that he is gone she feels free to think on her own and do what she wants. Evan speculates, “Louise responds to the news with intense emotion and shuts herself in her room. As she stares

Next, Mrs. Mallard was a woman who suffered from the times where women were treated with less value and importance. She lost her own life because rejoice at her husband’s tragedy. Her uncontrollable desire to be free made her become a frivolous woman, who let his personal longing’s end with his own life. When she realized that her husband was alive all his plans vanished. Her happiness was a temporary happiness which lasted less than an hour.

Within the story The Story of an Hour there is a train wreck that Louise Mallard’s husband is thought to be on and so his name is on the list of people whom have passed. Mrs. Mallard’s sister and husband’s friend, knowing that she has “heart troubles,” try to keep the news from her before they can enlighten her of the harsh news lightly and smoothly, with much success. She shows a face of how she should react, but on her own she thinks of all of the possibilities that she can do now. She actually feels better about life and wishes for it to be longer than she had when her husband is alive. Through his death she gains a sense of identity for herself. During the time of Mrs. Mallard’s world, a good wife would be one that “accepts the conventions”

Both women eventually experience love to the death, both physically and mentally. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, Anne strongly believes that their love can be preserved; that it will last forever. In the last line of the poem,