As she sits in her room, she begins to feel something coming for her; at first she does not know what it could be. It does not take long for Louise to recognize "this thing" as independence and once she knows what it is she tries to fight it: ".she was striving to beat it back with her will," (Chopin). The pleasure of independence is forbidden, and the fact that she had to fight the feeling shows how much it is forbidden, because Louise initially resists even though she desires her own independence. In this time period, Louise does not hold much power in her own home or in society, but with her husband now dead she does have power. The power her husband had over her is no longer present and now she holds power that in her society is not normal for women. "There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature," (Chopin). No longer having the constant oppression of her husband, Louise has begun to feel a sense of independence which excites her, knowing she has become an independent woman in the time period when things are changing for women.
Continuing her bite into the apple, Louise comes to see that she was unhappy in her marriage, which showed in her unusual reaction to the news of her husband's passing. Louise heard the story like other women hear when they lose a husband, but, "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance," (Chopin). Her reaction was not because she was abused by her husband or the fact her husband was a tyrant, but because ".she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not," (Chopin). She was unhappy with being put in the stereotypical position of women set by society. Being a housewife no longer appeals to Louise, and possibly never appealed to her; she hates her lifestyle and now she is ready for a change.
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The Story of an Hour "The Story of an Hour" is about a woman who finds the liberation to live for herself through her husband's death. ... Her characters are always commits sins that often made her contemperaries cringe, whether reading private mail (Elizabeth Stock's One Story"), deceiving well-meaning nuns ("Lilacs), smoking illicit hallucinogenic ciggarettes ("An Egyptian Ciggarette"), condoning murder (The Godmother") or rejoicing at a husband's death ("Story of an Hour"). ... The "Story of an Hour" is a criticism of marriage as an institution that traps women. .....
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In Kate Chopin's short story, The Story of an Hour depicts a short hour of a woman's life. ... Louise sits in a chair facing the window for an hour in her room. ... After a good solid hour is up, Josephine comes up the stairs to her bedroom door and asks Louise to come out. ... The little the dialogue and action in the story, the better the story was. The Story of an Hour kept me wanting to read more. ...
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