The Story of an Hour and A Pair of Silk Stockings

Undecided Course of the Future

Realism occurs everyday, one may not know but its the reason why know not everyone gets to live their lives to a happy ending, its the reason why sometimes you can't get everything you want in your life. Realism is the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly. Realism is a trend which takes place in the nineteenth century during which literature depicted life "as is," and focuses on real life. This literary movement frequently depicted everyday life; it follows the rule of a phenomenal world and that nothing is added to your life. It is the reverse job of what a filter would do to all the troubles that one may encounter later in life. Realism is represented in Kate Chopin's short stories The Story of an Hour and A Pair of Silk Stockings. In both the short stories, the main characters get to face a dream/fantasy that they’ve always wanted to encounter; something rare that lasted only for a short amount of time. The freedom that each character got was some sort of new freedom that they never experienced before. For example in The Story of an Hour, the main character Louise Mallards is feels oppressed because she can't live for herself. She realizes at the end that her husband was alive the whole time and that her short fantasy came to an end. She thought that it would last forever until the death of her but she was wrong. Another example of realism is A Pair of Silk Stockings, the main character of this story was Little Mrs Sommers. She finds fifteen dollars on the floor and this feeling of having this much money eventually controls her until its all gone. Her lack of being able to control herself and curiosity controls her and the money. W...

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...her freedom. When she sees Brently still alive, it sends her back into the real world which in response she struggles to continue living and facing the life with a superior figure. The dream of Mrs Sommers was to continue living the way she did during the day she found the fifteen dollars, she had no worry and no stress upon her that day until she ran out of money. Both characters wanted to live their life as they did once they reached the freedom that they’ve always wanted but at the end of the day, they ran out of time and their fantasy came to an end. The formal point of the view is that realism generally says that not everything ends up the way one hopes and dreams of.

Works Cited

Chopin, Kate, and Kate Chopin. The Story of an Hour. Logan, IA: Perfection Learning, 2001. Print.

Chopin, Kate. A Pair of Silk Stockings. United States: S.n., 2012. Print.