Story Of An Hour Analysis Essay

The Story of an Hour There are many different tones, themes, characters, and symbolism in the short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin explains the story of a negative view of marriage by showing the reader with a woman who is overjoyed that her husband has died, also the characters in the story itself goes through multiply changes from fear to depression to finally freedom. The lone character, who goes through the most change be far throughout the entire story is the main character Mrs. Louise Mallard. This transformation doesn’t just help change the character of Louise Mallard, further the themes of the story and solidify the tones that the author are trying to set for the story. Of the many tones that are displayed at one point in the “The Story of an Hour” is sadness/depression. When the news of her husband Brently Mallard’s death is broken to Louise Mallard the rest of the family is frighten to tell her because of her weak heart. When the news is broken to her, she automatically heads up to her room to be alone with her thoughts to think things over. In the room, she is thinking to herself how will she survive without her husband. The second theme involved in the story of an hour is depression.
The way the Kate Chopin uses irony to set the tone for the story as a way to help progress her story along to come to a complete end. Chopin includes the irony by having Louise die instead of her husband Brently. Also, it’s ironic after her sister tells Louise about her husband’s death, she locks herself alone in her room staring out the window. Josephine thinks that her sister’s crying out because of the deep grief of losing her husband. However, the fact is that she cries out for being relieved. She feels free due to the fact that she was so unhappy with her marriage and her