Story Of An Hour Analysis Essay
Analysis of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”
Kate Chopin’s “the story of an hour” presents the story of a wife in 1894, in a time when society norms underestimated women needs. The story mainly explores the reaction of a wife, who suffers of heart trouble, to her husband’s death. The story begins with her sister’s and family’s friend’s struggle to break the news to her; the story then transports the reader through the development of Mrs. Mallard’s different emotions. Mrs. Mallard passes from grief, for her husband’s death, to joy, for her freedom, and to death for her husband’s return. The author presents the problems of a 19th century marriage, and how these develop a change in this wife’s feelings in regards to her husband’s death. The story invites the reader to analyze and judge Mrs. Mallard’s behavior; behavior that was developed by her own meaning of …show more content…
The different emotions and the transformation that Mrs. Mallard went through in her room was the main scenario of the story. The climax of the story: her husband returns. This was the only conflict she could not overcome. The analysis of the Characters, especially the protagonist Mrs. Mallard, gets the reader closer to understand her behavior. She was a young, beautiful woman who lost her identity when she got married. However, life was giving her back what she always wanted with the event of her husband’s death. She developed into a new free woman, but her joy stopped with her husband’s return and her death. The narrator point of view allows the reader to reach his personal conclusion. I, personally, see the protagonist as a strong woman who managed to live all those years pleasing her husband and society for the price of her identity and freedom. However, I want to share that my husband’s, male point of view, sees her as a cold hearted woman, who did not love her
Kate Chopin’s “the story of an hour” presents the story of a wife in 1894, in a time when society norms underestimated women needs. The story mainly explores the reaction of a wife, who suffers of heart trouble, to her husband’s death. The story begins with her sister’s and family’s friend’s struggle to break the news to her; the story then transports the reader through the development of Mrs. Mallard’s different emotions. Mrs. Mallard passes from grief, for her husband’s death, to joy, for her freedom, and to death for her husband’s return. The author presents the problems of a 19th century marriage, and how these develop a change in this wife’s feelings in regards to her husband’s death. The story invites the reader to analyze and judge Mrs. Mallard’s behavior; behavior that was developed by her own meaning of …show more content…
The different emotions and the transformation that Mrs. Mallard went through in her room was the main scenario of the story. The climax of the story: her husband returns. This was the only conflict she could not overcome. The analysis of the Characters, especially the protagonist Mrs. Mallard, gets the reader closer to understand her behavior. She was a young, beautiful woman who lost her identity when she got married. However, life was giving her back what she always wanted with the event of her husband’s death. She developed into a new free woman, but her joy stopped with her husband’s return and her death. The narrator point of view allows the reader to reach his personal conclusion. I, personally, see the protagonist as a strong woman who managed to live all those years pleasing her husband and society for the price of her identity and freedom. However, I want to share that my husband’s, male point of view, sees her as a cold hearted woman, who did not love her