“The Story of an Hour” is emphatically a coming of age anecdote, written by Kate Chopin in eighteen ninety-four. Louise Mallard is the variance protagonist of “The Story of an Hour,” who is faced with her husband Richard’s death, in a time when women had to have a man in their lives in order to be respected and survive. Chopin explores how Mrs. Mallard, a woman, who is married can still feel emotionally starved and caged in her role in being a devoted wife that her husband oppressed upon her.
The title “The Story of an Hour” first of all reflects how time is an untamed animal that picks and chooses its victims. Theirs is not a way to know when and where time will strike, but when it does something that seems so horrible and awful could end up being the light at the end of the tunnel you where looking for. Also the title shows how fast life can take away everything leaving a dejected and miserable feel to it. Then in just a few hours or minutes be full of adventure, possibilities and experience ahead in the future in a very
few moments. Which was what Mrs. Mallard experienced as she “shuddered that life might be long,” but in on instant of a few breaths her whole outlook of life took towards more enthusiastic, exhilaration and pleasure full experience (19).
brought along the very freedom she was so starved of, the very freedom she craved whole heartily. As Mrs. Mallard “was drinking in a very elixir of life through the open window”(17). There is almost a surreal theme in the background as Mrs. Mallard is filled to the brim of her ecstasy. With Mrs. Mallard feeling as the most beautiful, victorious, magnificent woman that has ever lived, since her dark, devious ruler has fallen from his throne.
Although Mrs. Mallard does say she loved her husband, she also summits it was only every once in while. That in which is expressed when Mrs. Mallard first finds out of her husband’s death. That shows in the reaction of Mrs. Mallard upon the announcement as “ she wept once with sudden, wild abandonment”(3). That is a response that is expected of what the wife would do if she had l
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