Comparing Emily And Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

Everyone has read a book at least once in their lives whether it was fiction or nonfiction. There’s always going to be that one book him or her can relate to and feel as if they have gain a relationship with the author and understands him or her without actually physically meeting them. In the same way William Faulkner, who wrote The Rose of Emily and Kate Chopin, who wrote The Story of an Hour. Both authors conducted stories where their audience get expose to their internal and external factors which helps them to fully understand the text and why it was written the way it was. It's like if him or her were to write a deeper poem about them being exposed to lust they can reveal an internal factor of them being gay or straight or create an

Anyone can write a simple story about anything. But It takes a true writer to write a story that can lead them to be one of the most incredible authors of all time. William Faulkner was one of those authors. Born on September 25, 1897 in Albany, Mississippi Williams spent most of his time in Oxford, Mississippi where his father Murry Falkner was a business manager of the University of Mississippi (Faulkner). “ If you want to know something about the dynamics don’t go to historians or even Negro historians go to William Faulkner”( Polsgrove). During the time of the late 1800s the south is represented to be a place where a lot of slavery was going on and segregation between whites and blacks. So being that William Faulkner was a white southern man and was raised by a white southern man it was no surprise when he wrote the text “The Rose for Emily”. According to William Faulkner in The Rose of Emily “Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer”. This shows that William Faulkner was a southern and thought less of the northern people and believed that he was higher than them. Because he was a white male from the south, society would have

Kate Chopin was a successful female author. Born and raised in a St. Louis devastated by the Civil War, Katherine O'Flaherty Chopin became the storyteller of a sultry and sometimes dangerous south Louisiana (Chopin). She viewed many horrific things in the south. Thomas Kate’s father died when she was just a child leaving her mother to be a widow and her with no father figured (Chopin). Kate grew up basically seeing her mother being a independent woman. She got married at nineteen to Oscar Chopin a Louisiana cotton broker (Kirszner and Mandell). Twelve years later, when her only daughter was born Oscar died from a swamp fever leaving her to act alone (Chopin). Kate Chopin had a hard time in life and was a widow just like her mother and was forced to act alone and because of this it was no surprise at the way she set up the characters Ms.Mallard and Mr. Mallard in The Story of an Hour. "What could love,the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this ownership of self assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest urge of her being”(Chopin). The fact that Kate focuses on oneself shows how she values, self determination and shows why she created Mrs. Mallard as the one so eager to want to be independent. Growing up, she never viewed a father figure in her life so it was normal for her not to include Mr.Mallard in majority of the story.“There would be no one to live for those