This essay writes about symbol of “The Story of an Hour.”. The story has two important symbols. This essay is based on basis and evidence which is included by the book. Also this essay consider gender perspective because Kate Chopin is known feminist writer. The first important symbol is “heart disease”. Why is it symbol of this story. In this story, “heart disease” has aspect of two emotions. At first, “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gentry as possible the news of her husband’s death.”. The quotation argues that Mrs. Mallard get closer death because of her husband’s death news. And then this sentence is written in beginning of this story, and gives impression for reader. We have to conscious grief and sad in this scene. Another emotion is “joy”. “When the doctors came they said …show more content…
Free is important rolls in this story. “She said it over and over under her breath; ‘free, free, free! The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes.”. The scene is Mrs. Mallard gradually starts alive. Why is she getting alive even though she has heart disease? The answer is can be found below the quotation;
Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.
This quotation is said that Mrs. Mallard starts having hope for her future life. On the other hand, she felt very long when she lived with her husband. In generally wife who died husband are supposed to be sad, but she is not sad．We can read gender concept at that time. At that time women generally must get married without true love. Moreover wife typically have to engage household chores, thus wife did not have “free”. Kate Chopin argued in this story that woman who get married did not have