To begin with, the protagonist of the story, Mrs. Mallard, helps us understand the life woman had to live in the 1890’s. In those specific years, between the late 1800’s and the early 1900,s woman
that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is the story of a woman’s reaction to the news of her husband’s passing. Mrs. Louise Mallard is a young woman most would conclude to be saddened by the passing of her husband. Yet it is in that very moment we find her true feelings. Kate Chopin was born Katherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1850 in St. Louis Missouri. She was the only child
Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour," utilizes superb symbolism and elucidating points of interest with a specific end goal to differentiation Mrs. Mallard 's everyday and dreary life. Chopin utilizes symbolism and expressive subtle elements to differentiate the rich conceivable outcomes for which Mrs. Mallard longs with the dull reality of her regular life. The main theme of this story is “the quest for identity” because Louise’s sudden self-discovery shows that she had been seeking
kills, well that’s what that the doctor said. Louise Mallard was a woman who had a heart problem and found out here husband was killed in a train wreck but she didn’t take it as heard as they would have though.Mrs. Mallard is actually happy that her husband has died and instead looks forward to her coming year being free.Mrs. Mallard is described as being young and having a fair calm face. Symbolizing the beauty and innocence. Brently mallard had a repressed her, and how though the smilingly tragic
the “tragic” discovery that in reality her husband was still alive. There are certain factors of the setting that reveal certain characteristics about Louise Mallard, whom is one of the main characters. The meat of this story takes place in the spring of the 1890’s, in a timeframe of about an hour, and in a house that belonged to the Mallards. This is extremely significant to the meaning of the story. Louise Mallard’s husband was supposedly killed in a railroad and when she heard of this news she