From the very beginning readers emphasize with the young woman and her tragedy. A range of figures of speech is employed to describe her state and feelings: epithet “wild abandonment”, comparison with a crying child, metaphors “physical exhaustion that haunted her body” and “storm of grief”. An interesting thing is that after such touching paragraphs describing tears and grief comes a description of surrounded nurture. The entire world around the woman is full of life and happiness. Each and every living being celebrate the joy of being alive: “trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life”, “the delicious breath of rain”, “a peddler was crying his wares”, “countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves”.
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. Knowing how Mrs. Mallard felt about her husband for a few minutes she became inconsolable and cried in the arms of her sister, Clugston, (2010) “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” (sec 2.2. para 3). After Mrs. Mallard goes to her room and sits down in the chair and starts looking out of the window things for her start to change even though she
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.
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.
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.
Does Chopin’s characterization of Mrs. Mallard justify the story’s unexpected and ironic climax? Explain your response. In reading Chopin’s story “The Story of an Hour” I believe the characterization of Mrs. Mallard does justify the ironic climax. This story indicates a woman by the name of “Mrs. Mallard” who seems to be unhappy in her marriage.
Areli Espinoza Professor Palmer English 1302.208 13 February 2015 Analyzing “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin is the author of “The Story of an Hour." This classic short story takes place in the late 1800’s in the year of 1894. It’s about a young woman, whose name is Louise Mallard. She is newly widowed, and it shows her reacting throughout the time span of an hour. Louise Mallard was married to Brentley Mallard, the supposed deceased in the story.
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
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.