Emotions In Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

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Emotions of an Hour In an hour your can find out your true feelings. The Story of an Hour is a short story based in the early 1900s about a woman who has a heart condition named Mrs. Mallard. During the story finds out that her husband has died in a train accident. Throughout this story she is she has many things that she goes through while processing this death. First, she becomes sad, next she finds her true feelings about the death, and then she dies. Mrs. Mallard is a sympathetic because she moves through many emotions of grief. The first reason Mrs. Mallard was sympathetic was because in the beginning of the story she was truly sad about Mr. Mallards death. In the story learning of the news from her family the story writes “She wept at once… When the storm of grief had sent itself, she went away to her room alone. (Chopin 234). Mrs. Mallard was a mourning wife. She eminently when upstairs and seat alone because the news was so heavy for …show more content…

So, while Mrs. Mallard sits in her room she began what this death really means to her. After thinking for a minute, she begins to say “free, free, free! (Chopin 235).” She is realizing that she is not under her husband any more. You could feel her emotion and see what the realization had opened for her. The story also says “ Free! Body and soul free!” (Chopin 235).” This really makes readers feel what how she was sad but a little relived to be able to get herself back. After this happened her family calls her to come back down stairs and she discovers that her husband that she thought died in the train accident is perfectly fine. The end of the story says, “When the doctors came she died- of joy that kills (Chopin 236).” This was powerful. She had just found her true feelings. Then all your new-found freedom comes tumbling down make you sympathies with her death and

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