Oppression Of Women In The Story Of An Hour

Pretty bird, pretty bird, all she wanted to do was fly away. Kate Chopin’s opposition to the oppression of the female in society is obvious when examining her story, “The Story of an Hour” through the feminist lens. Where we as readers, can analyze how the sexual identity of women influenced her story through the use of literary devices. I wouldn’t call it, woman intuition, for the sake of males, who lacks that special gift. Nevertheless, that’s what the literary devices allowed us to comprehend.
From reading “The Story of an Hour”, you can see the tension through the text caused by mixed emotions. Where we can analyze that the woman protagonist is being oppressed while the male remains to be seen as the dominant. Being that the male is dominant
The way the protagonist, wept with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms, not only expresses the emotions she felt but more of how she was viewed as weak and had to submit to the feeling of feeling horrible with the loss of her husband. For all we may even know, she probably didn’t even fully expose the feeling of lost and replaced it with
Just as she locks herself in her room and locks out her social world. By conditioning her repressed emotions, she awakens individual elements of her natural environment: she notices, as she looks out her bedroom window, the trees, the rain, the air, the peddler’s voice, the notes of a song, the sparrows, the sky, and the clouds (193). Freeing her emotions Mrs. Mallard attends to “the sounds, the scents, the color” in the natural world (193), and they teach her of the sounds, the scents, and the color within her own soul. Louise’s responsiveness to the sounds, scents, and color is her excited and intense responsiveness to beauty. To feel life’s beauty, then, is to see the beauty of one’s own life. For to look at the world of nature is to feel life’s innate, spontaneous beauty: “she was drinking in a very elixir of life through the open window” (194). As Rosenblum said: “The trees are “all aquiver” with new life. Rain has fallen, purifying the air, and now the clouds are parting to show “patches of blue sky.” This scene mirrors Louise’s situation. Finally her soul can awake and she can realize the full potential of her life, so she, like the trees, feels aquiver with life. The clouds again represent her married life, which were dark clouds on her happiness, but now her life is clearing. As she contemplates her future, she imagines “spring days and summer days” only, not autumn or winter days,