In this short story Kate Chopin employed sight imagery to relate Louise Mallard’s emotions in The Story of an Hour. After the terrible news of her husband’s death, Louise saw “patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds”. The death of her husband related to the railway conditions of the Gilded Age; they were not very safe, so death was a common place. This refuted the Romantics way of thinking that there is always a happy ending, and supported the beliefs of the Realis

ts, that there is sadness in the world and one must get over it and move on with their life. The clouds in the sky represented her life with her husband and his controlling influences that severely limited her options. After his death, the clouds/ her life became more free and open; she could see more without the clouds/ her husband obstructing her view of the world/ life.

Kate Chopin also utilized taste imagery in The Story of an Hour. While mulling over the verity that her husband died at the railroad accident, Louise tried to push away the feeling of joy that was enveloping her. Yet when she let herself go, she felt as if she had “[drank] in [the] very elixir of life”. The Realists of the Gilded Age wanted to show that death happens to everyone. However, no matter how disheartened and sad we are, we must move on with our lives. They wanted express that there was still a world outside ours, which had yet to be explored. In a Romantic�

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