Trifles and the Story of an Hour
The Woman in the story “The Story of an Hour” and the woman in the drama Trifles go through a comparable chain of emotional states. There is a direct relationship between their psychological condition and their marriage. What’s more, both share a common ground with the perceived or actual death of each husband being the catalyst for change in their emotional states. They both go through a sad, happy, and final sad phase. All of there sad phases are a direct result of marriage, both happy are a direct result of the end or supposed end of marriage, but the way they return to sadness is slightly different. With so much in common, it is evident that the authors are using a similar technique involving emotional inversion. In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard, the protagonist’s, sadness is evidenced by her reaction to losing her husband. We understand that Mrs. Mallard was sad with the state of the marriage it’s self. The fact that she makes comments like: “free, free, free!” “Free! Body and soul free!” leave no doubt that she is much happier in the absence of marriage. By default and common sense, we know she must have been sad or in the least not as happy as she is now (out of marriage), while in th
In the play “Trifles” the protagonist, Mrs. Wright, also has a sad stage. This character’s sad stage is blatant. Her husband cuts her off from all contact with the outside world. They also never have children so she never has company. Mrs. Hale, a character in the story, actually says, “…She used to sing. He killed that, too.” (She is Mrs. Wright. He is Mr. Wright) Her husband, throughout his time with her, hacked away at everything that was happy and carefree about her, reducing Mrs. Wright to nothing more that a sad old woman, with no contacts. Mrs. Mallard’s revisit to sadness is sudden and ultimately terminal. Once Mrs. Mallard is done grieving and at this point, totally happy, she opens the door and walks out. Her sister Josephine was waiting for her. Together they descend the stairs. Presently, Mr. Mallard is unlocking the front door, and then enters the house. Josephine screams, another character named Richards tries to screen him from view and Mrs. Mallard dies. When Mrs. Mallard sees her husband all her joy is taken away from her. Everything she rejoiced is instantly falsified and she has a heart attack. The doctors called it “….joy that kills.” (p.14) It is easy to see that both Mrs. Mallard and Mrs. Wright shared a similar three stage psychological progression. They both had moments of sadness, happiness, and sadness again. Though Mrs. Mallard dies of heart
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Story Hour”,
Presently Mallard,
Hour” Mallard,
John Wright,
Mallard Wright,
Wright Wright,
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“the story hour”,
heart attack,
story hour”,
“the story,
sense accomplishment,
little removed,
happy period,
sing killed,
death husband,
mallard dies,
sad happy,
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Approximate Word count = 958
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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