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Story Of An Hour Feminist Lens Essay

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In the story “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard thinks her husband dies from getting in an accident and she doesn't react like people think she should. The feminist lens is represented through most of the story. The feminist lens looks at how women are supposed to act and be in society and focuses on if the do a action that is manly or not. In the story when Mrs. Mallard’s husband dies she hides how she truly feels from everyone else and goes in a room to express it. She doesn’t cry forever she only cries for a little bit. The feminist lens best applies to “The Story of an Hour”, it shows Mrs. Mallard who didn’t do what people thought she should do after her husband died In Mrs. Mallard’s relationship she felt controlled. The story shows she felt this way by what she was saying. Mr. Mallard over spoke Mrs. Mallard and didn’t really care for what she thought. Mr. Mallard made her live for him. She even knew that “... she would live for herself,” Said the Kate Chopin on page 158. The Mallards relationship was based on Mr. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard did everything for him and what did he give her in return. When he died she finally realized she would get to do things for herself and they would have purpose “‘Free Body and soul free!’ she kept whispering.” the …show more content…

However the queer lens can also be applied to this because that leens talk about how the characters don’t fit in or what is different about them in society. So Mrs. Mallard could fit in with that because she isn’t sad for a long time like she should be but otherwise she doesn’t let people see. So to society she fits in only the readers know that is what is happening. But the feminist lens shows how she feels free that her husband die and handled it in her own way. So both lens work but the feminist one is easier to spot. “The Story of an Hour” has a lot of point in it and a lot of the points show how women are suppose to feel representing the Feminist

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