Misconceptions In The Story Of An Hour

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“The Story of an Hour” (1894) is a story which can be easily relatable in that era. This age was trying to up bring women’s power and influence the society to change from a traditional mentality to a new phase of women’s life, the people of the U.S.A started to act against women’s suffrage. The movements of these activities led many women to encourage and become an independent female. In “The Story of an HourKate Chopin was trying to highlight important morals for a female: to be patient, courageous and hopeful for the future life. Whereas some scholar like Daniel P. Deneau solidly misinterprets the silence in the Chopin’s story and the clues to an extremist condition. The story also refers to the difference in gender role with misconceptions, …show more content…

The doctors replied that “[…] she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills” (Chopin, 72). The reasoning that was inherited by the male doctors was defying the laws of medical science. Certainly, there is a misconception about the genders that might be a possibility of a lack of coherent inference by the doctors. However, Daniel P. Deneau’s “Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour’” did not anticipate this very detail which completely drags audience to the idea of discrimination against women and their rights. Deneau didn’t overlap the ideas that interact with the summarizing end of the story. Instead, he focused on much of his review on sexual behavior and drive of Mrs. Mallard. This review of Daniel will annoy the readers and will fight against the point of view of Daniel which all seems to be blended with one such point. However, this very detail by the doctors might be misguiding the reason of death or perhaps the death of women doesn’t consider an important thing in that …show more content…

Louis Mallards while sitting in the room. Although the story itself doesn’t make any connection with this opinion while reading it, However, Deneau’s made a vacuous argument when he stated that “With no male aggressor-partner named in the text, only a "something," readers naturally will speculate. For me, two possibilities exist--both supernatural--of which, time after time, I am reminded as I contemplate the passage: one is classical, pagan; the other, Christian. The former is Leda and the swan-Zeus, a potent, sinister force which creeps from the "sky," attacks, and engenders a world-shaking course of events. (6) But the passage is about more than fear, force, and sex; it is also about anticipation, pleasure, and ultimately enlightenment” (Deneau, 212). Where he sincerely talks said that a woman, alone is having her pleasure time with her body. Interestingly, this accusation of a woman didn’t quite go in his favor because this argument hinders back and forth between reality and fantasy. The Deneau’s did a imaginative job in thinking possibility because he gave a very enigmatic viewpoint with greater extent, but that didn’t really fit in the story line because in the beginning of the story Mr. Mallard’s death news totally shock Mrs. Mallard and she went through a harrowing time while the silence gave support to concede

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