Mr. Mallard unfortunately has the advantage of the marriage and thinks he has the right to impose everything on his wife. However, that all seems to change when she hears about her husband. In the beginning of the story when she first discovers the news “she wept at once with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms” (Chopin 15). Also the first sentence of the story says “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 15). When just glancing over this you may think that in saying she has heart trouble, it is actually telling you she has heart disease or something close to it.
The narrator’s words give a great portrayal of the relationship between the false news and how Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts formed. The narrator explained how she didn’t take the news in the manner that others did, she was unable to grasp its terrifying impact. Then later explains how Mrs. Mallard tried to fight it but then embraced the excitement she was having about her husband’s death and what was to come for her (Chopin, 2011, para. 3 and para. 10-11).
Even though she feels sad about the fact that she has lost her husband, she cannot conceal her feeling thrills about her new life as an independent woman. Her death at the end of the story is really unexpected, and Chopin does not give any detailed description of the reason why she is dead so suddenly. However, it may be because her freedom has been taken away from her again. In ‘Deictic Elements in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour – A Cognitive
In the story, independence is portrayed as a pleasure that is forbidden . As such, it should only be imagined by anyone only when they are alone. When Louise hears of her husband's death, she is immediately hit with grief. Her reaction is what is expected, though it may be less painful than for other women. When Louise is alone, she starts realizing that with her husband's death, she now has her independence.
We were really glad". In the atmosphere in which she lives, there is little for her to do once it appears she has been abandoned except to withdraw from all social discourse. Her father had chased away all her suitors, and now another male seemed to have abandoned her as well. Her father's death is also something of an abandonment, one she does not care to admit because she has been made so dependent on this male figure. The women who lived in the era of Mrs. Mallard in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour were women who quite often had to lead a secret internal existence.
Again the sudden realization that she is “free”, free from her husband that she might have not really loved, freedom to live her life the way she wanted to. To her, death has given her a gift by taking her husband. Death has given her absolute freedom in her life, and she wanted to embrace it with open arms. She felt the triumphant victory that was freedom in death and she walked out with her sister, only to find that he husband was not dead. The story tells us that he was away from the accident and didn’t know it happened.
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.
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.
The inference gained is that societal expectations caused female oppression in the late 19th century however women were “yearning for freedom” (Toth, 2012, para. 11) and would not survive without it. The Story of an Hour first captured my interest with the image of the Mrs. Mallard being notified of her husband’s death. The description of her emotions that followed learning of the accident as a, “storm of grief” (Clugston, R., 2010, p. 27) was powerful. The imagery Kate Chopin depicted immediately took me back to the fateful day two years ago when I was notified of my own husband’s sudden death.
I am writing my essay from experience because I am a woman who, unfortunately, grew up without a father and after learning of my father’s existence, I then learned he was deceased, so I never received that kind of love. Growing up I have had multiple relationships and intimate encounter looking for what and how I thought a man should be. I have a few friends who were fortunate enough to have their fathers in their lives and our perspectives on many subjects are similar yet different. Our tolerance levels and what we will and will not accept from a man are even different. Many women growing up without fathers or a positive leadership in the home tend to accept a lot of negativity and disrespect from men because they do not know what having that male protections is, they become users and angry with men.