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Miscommunication In Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

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In the short story, “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin, the reader learns that in the past women were imprisoned in their marriage by men. People can see the effects of a man in a marriage by the reaction of Louise Mallard to the news of her husband's death in a train accident. Some may say, that the purpose of the story is to illuminate the dangers of miscommunication, but that is only in one part of the story you have to look at the big picture of it throughout the whole story and with Mallards actions, emotions, and thought, the reader can see that it is not that at all. After hearing about her husband's death, Mallard rushes up to a room to cry in peace, but in that room she had time to think and see her future. In the time Mallard experienced
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