Story Of An Hour Theme Of Love Essay

Love is a powerful thing, it is unseen, but felt very deeply. There is a common theme of love in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour,” Raymond Carver’s “Popular Mechanics,” and Stephen King’s “The Man Who Loved Flowers.” “The Story of An Hour” is about a woman who loves her freedom, until her husband comes home taking that away from her. “Popular Mechanics” follows a couple who has fallen out of love, but their love for their baby is dangerous. “The Man Who Loved Flowers” is about a man named love in search for a woman named Norma and when someone’s not Norma he kills them. The author’s, based on these short stories, all view love as something that ultimately leads to death. In “The Story of An Hour” Mrs. Mallard feels free when her husband, Brently Mallard, is pronounced dead, but when he surprises her on her doorstep she dies, due to losing her freedom. When Mrs. Mallard heard of her husband’s death she wept, with abandonment instead of being unable to accept its significance like other women. When her grief had
The young man spends his whole morning getting flowers for “Norma.” When he tries to give the flowers to “Norma” she tells him he is mistaken. He pulls out a hammer and she backs away. The young man kills the woman with the hammer because she isn’t Norma. She wasn’t Norma because Norma had been dead for ten years. “If there were bloodstains on his suit, they wouldn’t show, not in the dark, not in the soft late spring dark, and her name had not been Norma but he knew what his name was. It was . . . was Love.” He searched for Norma because she was waiting for him and he would find her. The woman who the young man thought to be Norma must have been in love and this love must have killed her. Love is very powerful and when one is treated badly by it, love could potentially lead to