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.
Analysis – “A Story of an Hour” ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Professor Heather Altfeld-Fisher Sundanyal Taran Farmer July 4, 2011 “A Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a short story centered on the main character Mrs. Louise Mallard and her reaction to the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard. The news has to be delivered to Mrs. Mallard gently because she has heart problems. Upon hearing the news, Louise reacts emotionally by crying and weeping. Chopin notes in the story that her behavior is uncommon of many women, who normally react by displaying a feeling of denial or disbelief. Louise then retreats to room where she begins to explore conflicting emotions and realities of her life to be.
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.
Also Richards her husband’s friend; who was one of the first to hear of Brently’s death, took the time to clarify the news and made sure that no one else would convey the gloomy message (Chopin, 2011, para. 2). This showed that Mrs. Mallard was so poor in health that if she got the news in an improper tone or from someone that wasn’t very close to her could have caused her to pass away. This also shows that the other characters thought that Mrs. Mallard was so sick that she couldn’t handle the news and wanted to protect her in a time of sorrow. The narrator’s words give a great portrayal of the relationship between the false news and how Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts formed.
The story end suddenly and unexpectedly: she descended the stairs and saw her husband safe and sound staying at the doors. The sudden heart attack killed her. This text writes into a narrative composition with descriptive elements. We could subdivide it into four parts: - introduction: when we knew that Mrs. Mallard have some health problems with her heart; - exposition: when her sister Josephine told her about death of Mr. Mallard; - climax: when author told as about the mixed feelings of the main character; - denouement: when she finally dies. "The Story of an Hour" wrote into mix of literary and colloquial styles.
Great care was taken to tell Louise Mallard, who has a heart problem, of her husband’s death, Brently Mallard, during a railroad disaster. It was her sister Josephine, with Brently’s friend, Richards standing there for support, who gave Louise the news of her husband’s death, she immediately started to weep. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, paralyzed inability to accept its significance.” (p. 15) Upon receiving the news, Louise is thrown into a downward spiral of her emotions. “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”(p. 15) After she was done grieving in her sister arms, Louise went upstairs and locked herself in her room and immediately began mourning the loss of husband. She went over to a comfortable armchair and sank down into it.
Mallard” who seems to be unhappy in her marriage. She was a woman afflicted with heart trouble (Chopin, 1894, para. 1). Her bad heart seems to come from a life filled with sadness and living for a man and not for her. She seems to be relieved when she hears of her husband’s death.
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. But, in fact Chopin wants her readers to know that Mrs. Mallard “has a very specific condition that interferes with the workings of her heart” (Hicks). As we read on we later realize that her heart condition being described is that her marriage hasn’t allowed her to “live for herself” (Chopin 15). Crying is part of her life with Mr. Mallard, but soon disappears as she becomes an independent woman. Mrs. Mallard cries for almost the whole story, only stopping when her new freedom crosses her mind.
In The Lost Sister we see a strong theme of death that is also carried into the poem Grandmother. The Lost Sister has a grim outlook on death and sees it as an end and not living on. In Grandmother the view is positive and sees death as a beginning to a new life. The Lost Sister and Grandmother can be compared and contrasted in many ways. They each see death as a different experience.
Hardy makes us feel sympathy towards Sophy because she wished to get away from Reverend Twycott but did not dare to refuse his proposal, which shows that she cannot live her life the way she wants to. A sentence that shows this is on page 48, ” even if she had wished to get away from him, she hardly dared to refuse”. Also, on page 48, It is mentioned that Sophy did not exactly love Twycott. This makes us feel depressed and upset for her because you should be married to a person you love and feel happy with because you are going to be with them your whole life, but Sophy did not exactly have a choice. Another example of how Thomas Hardy makes us feel Sympathy towards Sophy is on page 50 , ” Her foot never regained its natural strength after the accident”.