Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis

In “The Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin clearly displays a negative perspective of marriage by showing us a married woman who is overjoyed when she thinks her husband has passed away in an accident. Throughout the story, you can see that she doesn’t love her husband and she’s okay with the fact that her husband is dead. On page 762, second to last paragraph, Chopin describes her feelings as “monstrous joy”, which matches her emotions at this point. I find that word choice very interesting because not only that it’s becoming overwhelming for her, but also because she knows that she shouldn’t feel the way she does about her husband’s death. On page 763, Chopin writes “There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would