The Story of an Hour was written by Kate Chopin and originally published in Vogue on December 16, 1894. This text is one of Kate Chopin's most famous stories and one of the shortest. ... Kate Chopin exemplifies in the short story her beliefs in the role of women in marriage and feminine identity ("The Story of an Hour" 263). ... (Mays 477) In this fraction from The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin "seems to be making a comment on nineteenth-century marriages, which granted one person-the man-right to own and dominate another-the woman" ("The Story of an Hour" 266). ... Kate Chopin...

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
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The following will reveal oppression as depicted in Hemingway's Hills like White Elephants, Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello and Chopin's The Story of an Hour and the ramification of manipulation, envy, and freedom. ... Freedom, as depicted in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour is personified, having touched the protagonist, Louise Mallard and transforming her, widening her views on the life she desperately wanted to get rid of. In the story Louise Mallard, who suffers from a heart condition, has just received news about her husband's death from her sister Josephi...

• Word Count: 2229
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate