A Story of an Hour Analysis

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A Story of an Hour Analysis The author of “A Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin, was born February 8, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. Kate found out her talent for writing when people she wrote letters to recognized her skills as a writer. Kate lived during the Civil War and at time when women didn’t really have rights and not looked at the same way as now. They encouraged her to start writing and after her husband’s death she began to write a lot of short stories. Her short stories and novels were never really popular and thought to be banned because back then her topics about women, marriage, sexual desire, and suicide. After Kate Chopin’s death Daniel Rankin the first biography of her and after then did people start to recognize her talent and how far ahead she was with her writing. Her whole life Chopin searched for female spiritual emancipation, which she found and expressed in her writings. Independence is something everyone wants, no one likes to have to follow rules and feel like there owned. Louise was grieving and at the time she felt a joy from the feeling of independence, but she was afraid to show it for a while because she knows it’s not right to feel like that. Her marriage wasn’t a bad marriage but even the best marriages can be a burden on someone. The window that was open in her room expresses the idea of freedom and chasing after something you want. First, when Louise’s husband dies she is overwhelmed with sadness and grief “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.” (Pg. 1, 3rd Paragraph). She even says that she would cry at his funeral. While she is sad at first she starts to stop crying every time she thinks about being free from her husband and being and independent women. “Free, free, free!" (Pg. 1, 10th
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