"Story of an Hour" Analysis

One day, her husband’s friend Richard was at the newspaper office when unexpected information arrived at the office. A train accident had happen and his friend Brently Mallard was on top of the list of casualties. Quickly he informs the news to Josephine, who is Louise’s sister. Both of them try to break up the news to Louise as soft and unclear as possible. When she finally understands the story she becomes paralyzed. After a few seconds she burst into tears. In her head everything has gone wrong, she feels abandoned and physically she has no energy when she is in her sister’s arms. Then, she storms to her room alone and doesn’t let anybody to follow her. In her room, alone, acing at the window sitting at a convertible arm – chair. She still feels tired in body and soul. T

After a while her sister Josephine knocks on her door calling her to come out and indicates her that all that seclusion will make her sick. Then Josephine asks what is she doing inside. Louis responds that she is fine and that she is not making herself ill. After a while she agrees to come down, when she comes out of her room her face is filled with victory. Richard is waiting downstairs. At the end someone is trying to open the front door, is Mr. Mallard who is carrying his suitcase and umbrella. He was not in the train, as a matter of fact he was far away from the accident and he did not know that the mentioned occurred. At the same time all this is happening Josephine is crying and Richard is shocked and in a rapid action he catches Louis who is in shock, too. When the doctor arrives to the house is too late, and they said that she died from her heart disease. But she really died from a broken heart as she saw all of her dreams of freedom crushed when she saw her husband alive.

hen she goes to sleep, and starts thinking of the repression and lack of freedom of her marriage. She started to reflect. There was something that she has waiting for a long time, but she is fearful and insecure about it.

When she is thinking of her new life ahead, a word comes out of her mouth as she whispers something that she doesn’t expect: “Free.” She repeats this two or three times and then she feels terror. All this years she felt like a prisoner, powerless aga

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Josephine Louise’s, Louise Mallard, Kate Chopin, Brently Mallard, , Story Hour”, life ahead, husband alive,