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How Does Kate Chopin Tell The Woman In The Story Of The Hour

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In the short story “Story of the Hour” by Kate Chopin it talks about a wife by the name of Mrs. Louise Mallard who is married to Mr. Brently Mallard and didn’t have a great life. Although the story didn’t state that her life wasn’t great it through little hints like; “Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble… (128).” Chopin’s “Story of the Hour” opens up with the death of Mr. Mallard from a fatal train wreck, although the ending revels otherwise. Chopin’s short story discuss the situation of marriage and also women freedom. Being married involves two individuals who have to compromise and respect one another. Allowing this book to be written in the late 1800s, women didn’t have much to say in marriage because of the fact that men were
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