Argumentative Essay: The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

Argumentative Essay #1

The Story of an Hour (1894) by Kate Chopin does a phenomenal job delicately layering Louise’s pain, sorrow, disbelief, and then, surprisingly, relief. This is a story about the thoughts and actions of a woman when she discovers her husband’s, Brently, death. When this woman, Louise Mallard, discovered the tragic event, she seems sad and heart broken but is actually relieved. In paragraph 11, Louise says the word ‘free’ two times. As we go through the emotional rollercoaster alongside the ‘mourning’ widow, the events lead up to Brently, her husband, arriving at their house completely untouched. When Louise sets eyes on her husband, and sees that he is alive and well, she is so shocked that she dies from “the joy that kills.” Taking evidence from different area, I have come to the conclusion that The Story of an Hour it was not only

However, when she goes to her room, the audience sees her acts differently, as if she was happy and relieved, crying tears of joy, exclaiming, “Free! Body and soul free!” She no longer had to fear for the well being of her body and spirit, her mind was also free, she escaped the barbaric relationship alive. She could finally “live for herself,” she was not controlled by anyone anymore. “....she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not.” Even though Louise and Brently were married, it does not mean that they had to love each other. Ephesians 5:28 says, “ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” Brently did not treat Louise with the love and respect that he would treat himself with. Also, in Ephesians 5:33 it says, “However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” “....the wife must respect her husband.” The bible says that the wife has to respect her husband, not love, but