Analysis Of Emily Toth's The Story Of An Hour

One critic who agrees with these claims is Emily Toth, whom of which wrote an essay that was included in Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou. Toth states that half a dozen of Chopin’s main characters are suddenly widowed, and she wrote about these deaths as if it were cheerful for these characters to lose their husbands. Much like when Chopin lost her own husband. Chopin wrote in her diary that her husband’s death and the death of her mother is included in this, gave way for ‘real growth’ in her life and work. Toth also wrote in her essay that The Story of an Hour is the story of Kate Chopin’s mother Eliza, though changed. Saying that this story was a ‘series of hints at what she might have thought’ Some correlations that were made between

Another story that relates directly to a woman in Chopin’s life is “Anthenaise” which was published in 1895, and the woman the story is related to is her maternal grandmother of the same name. Both of these women, fiction and real, went into terrible marriages with older men that they did not really love. However, they are bound to that marriage no matter how terrible it is by the children that they bear. Although it is not said in the story what becomes of the marriage and Anthenaise, it is known what becomes of the real-life marriage. The couple suffered economically all of their lives, and when the husband does die, he leaves his wife poor and with seven children. The oldest being only a teenager. Anthenaise never married after her husband’s death, however, just like the rest of the family. Chopin’s stories are not only related to her family and their lives but can also be interpreted to be inspired but world issues and values. For instance, Chopin wrote a short story titled “Emancipation: A Life Fable” that was never published in her lifetime, but was written somewhere around 1869 and

However, she very well might have been speaking of the newly freed slaves, according to the title. One thing to note about this short story is that it transcends time, in that it can relate to all generations. Another instance where Chopin writes of values in the world is that of two early, and opposing, short stories that she wrote concerning marriage. The first is “Wiser than God” which is about a young pianist that rejects the marriage of a man that says he would let her continue her musical work so that she could pursue her own successful career as a pianist in freedom. The next is “A Point at Issue!” which speaks of an already married couple that wish to pursue their own goals separately while still being together. She goes to Paris while he stays in America, which does not work out and they end up miserable. Some would take these two opposite stories as a message about marriage, that it is bad or that we should all be warned about going into a marriage. However, that is not what Chopin is saying at