Comparing Story Of An Hour And The Awakening

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In the short story, “The Story of an Hour”, and the novella, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, it is evident that the lack of respect, treating someone like a possession rather than a person, is the single most destructive agent in a relationship. In Chopin's short story, the main character, Mrs. Mallard, is delivered the news of her husband's death. Instead of mourning the loss of her "beloved", she celebrates her sudden freedom. She now felt "there would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men...believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature" (Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” 2). Mrs. Mallard's husband has a scarcity of respect for his significant other, which is exemplified

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