The Story of an Hour Chelsea Boehland Intro to literature Larry Holden (ABG1318K) 5/13/2013 The short story of “A Story of an hour” by Kate Chopin (1894) was about a woman with a heart condition hearing about an accident that took her husbands life. The tone of the story started out sad, you felt for Mrs. Mallard, the horrible sadness you feel when you lost a loved one. But the tone changes as Mrs. Mallard is sitting in her room, staring out the window, thinking to herself. It’s the sudden thrill of freedom in death that she sees. This is where the tone goes from sad to excitement, that she is free to live her life, without I assume her husband.
Mrs. Mallard suffers from heart problems; therefore, her sister attempts to inform her. When she learnt about this, she busted into tears and went upstairs to stay along for some time. But then the strange and firstly unwilling feeling of absolute joy and freedom seized her. She understood that she loves this freedom much more then she used to love her husband. The story end suddenly and unexpectedly: she descended the stairs and saw her husband safe and sound staying at the doors.
Though “The Story of an Hour” is a short story, its author Kate Chopin ensures the reader experiences no shortage of character development. Chopin introduces readers to the protagonist, Mrs. Mallard during the very first line of the story. The readers enjoy a layered uncovering of Mrs. Mallard’s personality and inner most feelings and desires, and witness the transformation of Mrs. Mallard throughout the story. At the onset of “The Story of an Hour”, Mrs. Mallard learns of the sudden and tragic death of her husband Mr. Mallard. Kate Chopin then proceeds to take her readers on an emotional journey as the initially frail Mrs. Mallard allows her mind and her heart to explore life after Mr. Mallard.
Безуглая Анастасия 1АТМ Analysis of "The Story of An Hour" written by Kate Chopin. The story under study tells about young woman and her emotional experience connected with the fact of death of her husband. When she learnt about this, she busted into tears and went upstairs to stay along for some time. But then the strange and firstly unwilling feeling of absolute joy and freedom seized her. She understood that she loves this freedom much more then she used to love her husband.
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.
We will sum up the key argument and the perception of women before the 20th century. In ‘The Story of an Hour,’ Louise Mallard has a heart condition, and she must be told of her husband’s death with great care and compassion. Her sister, Josephine, tells her the news along with Mr. Mallard’s good friend, Richards, who had learned of the death while at a newspaper facility. Mrs. Mallard begins to weep as she is told of her husband’s death and goes upstairs to her room. While in her room she discovers a scary feeling that had come across her and does not know how to take it.
It is at the revealing of Mr. Mallard’s death that Mrs. Mallard begins to act unpredictably. It was reaction to the news that felt only surface deep, “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment…when the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone.”(Chopin 223). Mrs. Mallard’s actions after the news of her husband’s death reveal the oppression she faced throughout her relationship. Mrs. Mallard concedes the oppression she faced in the text when she says to herself, “There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and woman believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” (Chopin 224) Mrs. Mallard
Another example Kate Chopin uses of dramatic irony is throughout the whole short story. The reader knows that Mrs. Mallards is glad about her husband’s death but her sister, Josephine, and her best friend, Richards, don’t. They think Mrs. Mallard is making herself sick when she locked herself in her
She took tragidies in her life, and turned them into great literary peices of work. As the same with Shirly Jackson. She expiernced hear break at a young age. Thats why many of her literary works were often dark and moody. She often exprienced "periods of unhappiness and questioning the loyalty of her friends" witch became her motivation to really begin writing.
To briefly summarize the story, a woman who is most likely suffering from the effects of postpartum psychosis is brought by her husband, John, to a massive colonial mansion out in the countryside. As was very popular at the time, the woman is assigned the “rest cure” by her husband. Via a series of journal entries, the woman describes how she is feeling, and the particular interested that she has taken in the bizarre yellow wallpaper that “inhabits” the room that she is residing in, because she literally has nothing better to do than stare at the ceiling. As she stares at the wallpaper, more and more complex patterns jump out to her; despite the fact that there are no real patterns in the wallpaper; she is engineering them herself within her own psyche. She describes how the wallpaper seems to be rubbing off on her, and that it is constantly mutating and shifting around.