Story Of An Hour Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Rhetorical Analysis of The Story of an Hour
In 1984 Kate Chopin wrote the short story ‘The Story of an Hour’. Chopin, born O’Flaherty in 1851, is considered one of the most important women in the 19th century American fiction. She is best known for her novel ‘The Awakening’. Her short stories revolve around the way women were treated in this century.
The story is about a woman known as Mrs. Mallard and she had problems with her heart. Her husband was involved in an accident and because of her condition good means of letting her know of this were to be used. It was her sister Josephine who brought the news to her and also a friend to the husband, Richards, who happened to be in the newspaper office …show more content…
This device is used in the beginning of the story. From the way the story begins something bad was going to happen to this lady. Somewhere in the course of the story she was likely to die of heart disease. There are also other things throughout the story which makes us understand that something will go wrong but the writer tries to make us feel that everything is going to run smoothly .Chopin ends the story in a manner which leaves us with a lot of surprise. She did not take much of her time to give out the story neither did she use a lot of materials to convey the information. As the title of the story indicates this is the story of the last hour of Mrs. Mallard’s life. In the process of telling us about the last moments of her life, Chopin also gives us her life history until that …show more content…
’The Story of an Hour’. 1894. The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers. Ed. Stephen Reid. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson, 2008. Print.
‘Kate Chopin.’ Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol.33.Gale,2000. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 25 Sept. 2010. Document URL http://ic.galegroup.com.allstate.libproxy.ivytech.edu/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=K12-Reference&Action=e&windowstate=normal&catld=Gale%7c00000000MROB&documentID=Gale%7CK1603000607&mode=view&userGroupName=ivytech18&jsid=1c273a8fd76a7a373e2be18ccf10031d
Kate Chopin reconsidered: beyond the Bayou/edited by Lynda S. Boren and Sara de Saussure Davis
In 1984 Kate Chopin wrote the short story ‘The Story of an Hour’. Chopin, born O’Flaherty in 1851, is considered one of the most important women in the 19th century American fiction. She is best known for her novel ‘The Awakening’. Her short stories revolve around the way women were treated in this century.
The story is about a woman known as Mrs. Mallard and she had problems with her heart. Her husband was involved in an accident and because of her condition good means of letting her know of this were to be used. It was her sister Josephine who brought the news to her and also a friend to the husband, Richards, who happened to be in the newspaper office …show more content…
This device is used in the beginning of the story. From the way the story begins something bad was going to happen to this lady. Somewhere in the course of the story she was likely to die of heart disease. There are also other things throughout the story which makes us understand that something will go wrong but the writer tries to make us feel that everything is going to run smoothly .Chopin ends the story in a manner which leaves us with a lot of surprise. She did not take much of her time to give out the story neither did she use a lot of materials to convey the information. As the title of the story indicates this is the story of the last hour of Mrs. Mallard’s life. In the process of telling us about the last moments of her life, Chopin also gives us her life history until that …show more content…
’The Story of an Hour’. 1894. The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers. Ed. Stephen Reid. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson, 2008. Print.
‘Kate Chopin.’ Authors and Artists for Young Adults. Vol.33.Gale,2000. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 25 Sept. 2010. Document URL http://ic.galegroup.com.allstate.libproxy.ivytech.edu/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=K12-Reference&Action=e&windowstate=normal&catld=Gale%7c00000000MROB&documentID=Gale%7CK1603000607&mode=view&userGroupName=ivytech18&jsid=1c273a8fd76a7a373e2be18ccf10031d
Kate Chopin reconsidered: beyond the Bayou/edited by Lynda S. Boren and Sara de Saussure Davis