Research Paper on the Story of an Hour" By Kate Chopin The story of an hour is a short story written by Kate Chopin in the year 1894. Kate Chopin was born to a Creole-Irish family as Katherine O’Flaherty. She was raised by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother following the death of her father when she was just four. She received the formal education. Kate Chopin was married to Oscar Chopin in 1870, a Louisiana business guru, with whom she bore six children. The couple lived in Natchitoches and New Orleans before the death of her husband, Chopin, in 1884. At these places, she became engrossed in making observations about the Creole and Cajun life. Kate later relocated to her birthplace, St. Louis, after her husband’s death, where she began her literary career. Kate Chopin was born in the year 1850 and later died at the age of 54 years in 1904. Some of her works include a collection of stories, that is, Bayou Folk launched in 1894 and A Night in Acadie that was done in 1897. She also wrote a classic novel, The Awakening, in 1899 whose main theme was female sexuality which elicited a storm of criticism, (Chopin, Kate page 212-232). …show more content…
He goes into her room alone and does not allow her sister, Josephine or her husband’s friend, Richard, to follow her into her room. Inside her room, there is a comfortable roomy armchair that stands to face the open window. Mrs Mallard occupies this chair overwhelmed by the state of her physical condition. This exhaustion seems to not only tire her body but also her soul. The view from the roomy armchair offers her sight to an open square showing the top of trees quivering with the new life brought by the spring season. Mrs Mallard is also able to see a hawker peddling her wares. It also had rained and the breath of air generated by the mixture of the rain and the soil was offered quite a delicious taste of air to