Response: The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin
Sarah Hughes
Hunter
March 27, 2008
Response #2
Response #2 In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, there are many literary elements that make it very diverse from most short storied about a husband and wife. The author uses similes, metaphors, and much irony throughout the story that gives it the strange but interesting meaning it portrays. The literary terms in this story allow the reader to feel the emotion of the character, and the irony enhances the bitter-sweetness of the ending. This short story is about an hour in the life of the main character, Mrs. Millard. She has a heart problem and bad news has come about that her husband has died in a train accident. Her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richard, have to …show more content…
She uses personification in the line “she was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression” (Roberts 266). This element of personification represents how strongly she is in repression. It makes the reader feel how sad and dismal her life with husband was. "The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves” (Roberts 266). Here Chopin uses imagery to help the reader understand the environment that the main character is in. By using this imagery, Chopin really makes the reader feel for the main character and understand how depressed she was. Chopin uses a simile in the line “She carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory” (Roberts 266). This simile show the reader how free she really feels from the negativity that was impacting her while her husband was still alive. The author really does a phenomenal job with using these elementary literary tactics in this story. The way that she words her personification, imagery, and similes helps the reader understand the story on a higher level. There are many different themes that one could infer from this story. One theme that one would see is society’s treatment of the disabled. “There would be no powerful will bending
Hunter
March 27, 2008
Response #2
Response #2 In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, there are many literary elements that make it very diverse from most short storied about a husband and wife. The author uses similes, metaphors, and much irony throughout the story that gives it the strange but interesting meaning it portrays. The literary terms in this story allow the reader to feel the emotion of the character, and the irony enhances the bitter-sweetness of the ending. This short story is about an hour in the life of the main character, Mrs. Millard. She has a heart problem and bad news has come about that her husband has died in a train accident. Her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richard, have to …show more content…
She uses personification in the line “she was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression” (Roberts 266). This element of personification represents how strongly she is in repression. It makes the reader feel how sad and dismal her life with husband was. "The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves” (Roberts 266). Here Chopin uses imagery to help the reader understand the environment that the main character is in. By using this imagery, Chopin really makes the reader feel for the main character and understand how depressed she was. Chopin uses a simile in the line “She carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory” (Roberts 266). This simile show the reader how free she really feels from the negativity that was impacting her while her husband was still alive. The author really does a phenomenal job with using these elementary literary tactics in this story. The way that she words her personification, imagery, and similes helps the reader understand the story on a higher level. There are many different themes that one could infer from this story. One theme that one would see is society’s treatment of the disabled. “There would be no powerful will bending