Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis

Objective Summary
“Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is set in the Victorian Era and tells the story of a woman who, in one hour, faces the lows and highs and lows of life. In the beginning, Mrs.Mallard is gently informed by her sister and a friend that her husband was killed in a train accident, and she is devastated. The author writes, “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.” So, we can clearly see that the news truly upsets her. After Mrs.Mallard goes alone to her room and sits locked away in her room while looking out the window, a feeling of freedom starts to creep into her and she realizes it’s is not all bad he’s dead. The text says, “What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of possession

An Aha Moment was spotted when Mrs.Mallard realized she was free, “free, free, free!” The characters believed Mrs.Mallard died of a broken heart, but the reader knew she why she really died. This strategy helped is to discover the true conflict of the story. Another strategy used was when Mrs.Mallard started to contradict her thoughts, “She wept at once… There was a feverish triumph in her eyes.” The author used contrast and contradictions to show how Mrs.Mallard reacted to being free. This also helped me understand and deepen my thinking about the conflict. Chopin used words of the wise to show the care the friend and the sister had for Mrs.Mallard, “You will make yourself ill… She had died of a heart disease.” A life lesson was written, not to get your hopes up high, to show the theme of the story. Kate Chopin used many strategies to show important information about, the story to the

The author formed a theme, overcoming certain emotions can lead to great things, which helped the reader understand the change in emotions Mrs.Mallard had. The author writes, “ She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms… There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.” Mrs.Mallard overcame the her sadness and replaced it with a feeling of victory. Another theme the author developed was when you are feeling trapped, the desire to be free is more important than anything. The text says, “What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!” This shows the importance of being of being free to Mrs.Mallard. Humans can go through a war of emotions during a harsh loss, is another theme the author used in the story. The text states, “ And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!” Mrs.Mallard went through the harsh loss of her husband that she start to have a war through her emotions. The author made sure to develop many themes so the readers would look at the story in a