![]() Mallard is expected to be supported by Mr. Mallard would want input on important decisions. ![]() ![]() Mallard would no longer be the "undisputed head of the household" (The Language of Literature 783) because Mrs. However, these feelings of a great joy and freedom are difficult to suppress and most probably, these feelings would conflict with her husband's feeling of superiority. Mallard has all these new and intense feelings, when her husband returned, clearly not dead, she would have to subdue those feelings of freedom and once again "she would have" someone to "follow her" (Chopin 784). ![]() Although she had loved her husband, at times, she felt that now she could live a life of her own-"she would live for herself"-instead of having someone "live for her" (Chopin 785). Mallard began to think of life without a husband, a "free, free, free" life (Chopin 784). After hearing of her husband's death, Mrs. Mallard’s life, the only hour of her life in freedom.The future for the Mallards might have been more difficult and confusing if Mrs. I think Kate Chopin choose the title, “The Story of an Hour”, because the short story only tells of this particular hour of Mrs. But us, readers, know better she suddenly lost her newfound freedom and hope, and then also lost her life. The doctors came to say that she died because she was so glad for her husbands return. The fact that he returns is clearly the turn in the plot. Mallard comes out and descents down the stairs, she sees Brently Mallard (her husband) come walking in. Josephine becomes worried and wants her to come out of the room. The beautiful images represent her feeling of new life Louise finally feels free. She looks out of the window and see a new spring life outside. It seems as if she is devastated, but when she sits down in the room she becomes calm. Immediately after hearing the shocking news, Louise starts crying, and storms to her room. Mallard is informed about her husband’s death. “The Story of an Hour” starts in medias res, with what the story spins around when Mrs. Mallard doesn’t appear until the end, and we only get to know that he looks a little travel-stained. They treat her as if she could break at any given moment. Her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards are only described through how they act around Mrs. We get hints of her being trapped in an unhappy marriage, which was usual at that time. ![]() When she is in her room, she is characterized as an intelligent, strong, but also a repressed woman. It is also simple to side with Louise Mallard because she is the person you come close to, and in that way justify her actions. You easily sympathize with her because it seems as if that is what the writer wants you to do. She is a young, married woman who suffers from heart decease. Mallard, so the story is seen purely from her point of view. The story is told in the third person, but we only get to know the thoughts and feelings of Mrs. The setting of “The Story of an Hour” is a middle class in the USA in the late 1800s, and revolves around the main character Louise Mallard, so her room is mostly where the story is set. Her views upon marriage as an institution and the unfair and oppressive position women dealt with then might be the theme. In “The Story of an Hour” the subject can be women’s position in marriage in the late 1800’s, and Kate Chopin may in some way represent herself through the main character. She often wrote stories about women in a way that was considered inappropriate in relation to this century’s strict views upon marriage, sexual liberation and so on. The short story, “The Story of an Hour”, was written by the author Kate Chopin, in the last part of the 19th century. ![]()
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