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.
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
Not even the children are happy in the “ideal house.” Later the poem says: “I saw her yesterday at forty-three, her children gone, her husband one year dead, toying with plots to kill time and re-wed illusions of lost opportunity." She realizes that it is too late to go back and choose a different path, but she wonders what her life would have been like if she had chosen differently. The man with real pearl cufflinks is not there for her anymore; her children are not living at home. She is lonely and lonely is a feeling that she is not used to. She is no longer satisfied with her life because everything that she wanted and had is gone.
The writer reveals through several female characters that women make many sacrifices. Nora’s nanny has to abandon her own children in order to be able to provide for herself. She accepts a job as Nora’s nanny in order to do so. The Nanny considers herself propitious, being “a poor girl who’d been led astray.” (Isben pg 55) Mrs. Linde has to leave the love of her life Mr. Krogstad in order to marry someone who is able to support her financially. ”My mother was alive then, and was bedridden and helpless, and I have to provide for my two younger brothers; So I did not think I was justified in refusing his offer.” (Isben pg 20) Mrs. Linde has to make this sacrifice because she is required to support her mother and two brothers.
Because Eliza is jealous of Georgiana, she prevents Georgiana from eloping with the man she loves. And that’s why they hate each other. Both of Misses Reed are selfish, they don't care about their mother's illness or death. While Mrs. Reed is suffering from her deteriorating health, Georgiana feels bored and wishes if her aunt who lives in London invites her to their home, and Eliza is busy in planning for her life after her mother's death. When Mrs. Reed dies Jane says, "Neither of us had dropped a tear."
When she works up the courage to tell her boyfriend, Kai, she is afraid that he will leave her because of this news. To her surprise, he does the exact opposite. It actually seems that this tragedy makes Kai appreciate Faye even more as a person and that he falls in love with her even more. Then after reading A Sorrowful Woman, we are informed of a family whose wife of a hardworking man and mother of a little boy is seemingly helpless and very ill. She is so bad off, depressed, and sick that she did not
Annette's tragic experience is, for Antoinette, a legacy of insecurity and deep skepticism – really, fear – of society and of love, of her sexuality and her sense of self. Conflict After a month of courtship, Antoinette marries Rochester. We know it's odd to describe a marriage as a conflict, but in Antoinette's turbulent world, marriage is an incredibly fraught thing. Marriage isn't a union of two people in love, but a financial arrangement manufactured by her stepfather and her stepbrother. Instead of insuring her security, her apparently well-intentioned stepfather's goal, Antoinette's wealth is signed over to Rochester, thus resulting in her loss of economic freedom.
In Kate Chopin Three short stories “A Respectable Women” “The Kiss” and “The Story of an Hour” the leading women defy their daily roles of Purity, Domesticity and Submissiveness. At the turn of the twentieth century women were expected by society to be pure. Purity back then was one of the most important roles of women. They had to Guard it with their life if not thet weren’t a women and are then unfit to get married. It was said that the greatest night of their lifes is when they marry and lose their virginity to their beloved husband.
Although Mrs. Mallard loved her husband the overwhelming thought of a life without him brought about emotions that she had buried inside which was a sense of freedom. The theme of this story comes together as Mrs. Mallard descends to her room to be alone. Mrs. Mallard was a sickly women afflicted with heart trouble. Her ailment was known to her family and friends. When the word come down that her husband had been in a train accident and feared dead her family and friends knew to break the news to her as easily as they possibly could.
They deliberately try to turn their back on the actualities of life. Amanda, the mother takes herself to her beautiful past when she used to be courted by a number of gentlemen callers. She fabricates stories of her beautiful past and imposes those stories on her children. She is a widow left behind by her husband without much to provide for the family. Her daughter and son are failures who have not worked to meet her expectations.