Essay Comparing The Story Of An Hour And The Leaving

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Recommended: Critically appreciate the story of an hour by Kate Chopin

Imagine a world without strong women, women like Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Dorothy Vaughan. Women who questioned the patriarchy, the unfairness, and why it should just be “the way things are”. For, many decades women were looked at as objected and or chattel, not even seen as worthy of having the title of “person”, it was even debated if a woman had soul.
In the short stories “Another evening at the club”, “Same story, different ending”, “The story of an hour” and “The leaving”, The reader comes across five women, each of different age, culture, and race with one common struggle, repression from a patriarchal society.
The five women are in toxic relationships with their partner’s, But because of age difference each woman deals with her situation in different yet similar ways.

Samia is the youngest female the reader …show more content…

“The story of an hour” tells the story of Louise. Louise receives news one day that her husband has passed on, throughout the story she experiences many emotions, grief, sadness, and shock, But after all of she suddenly comes to a realization, She is free. As Louise ponders this new felt emotion she whispers “Free! Body and soul free!” (Chopin, 1894, p. 1)
After feeling imprisoned and repressed in her own marriage, she finally feels that she has the power to do more without a controlling figure preventing her from it.
Feeling confident and happy with her newfound freedom, she leaves her room and decends down the stairs, only to find her husband at the bottom alive and well. The shock of his appearance and her weak heart triggers a heart attack, although it is assumed by the doctor that she dies of happiness, although it is the complete

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