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Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

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In “Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin uses her contemporary setting to back the narrative. These characters could not be said to think, as we’d do today. Marriage being a well-nigh irrevocable compact, and certainty of feminine submission are alien concepts to our modern hearts, yet taken for granted in our story’s era. When we register these conditions the story unfolds in a less woolly manner. The shock of her husband’s sudden reversal being lethal to Mrs. Mallard seems strange to me. She immediately weeps in a hysterical fit at the news. Then exhausted, her pulse beating rapidly yet she is calmed. Her exhilaration for freedom. Then the very real concern of her sister Josephine. “You will make yourself ill.” Mrs. Mallard’s feelings are stronger
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