... situations. Through the use of imagery, Kate Chopin related the main character's emotions in The Story of an Hour, to that of the realism of the Gilded Age. 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 ... '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 hap...

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... children. He believes that women should be selfless, never taking from their families, but remaining the one in the household who's sacrificial. Leonce believes, just as other men during the Gilded Age, that Edna should be the "angel of the house," catering to his every need. Leonce Pontellier wants his wife to be one of the "ministering angels," (Chopin 9) who "idolized their ... ...

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