In the story “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin in 1894, the author demonstrate how women in the nineteenth-century feel about their traditional role as a wife. Mrs. Mallard, the young wife with a heart disease, receive the news that her husband, Mr. Mallard, had die in a fatal railroad accident. She begins going through the stages of grieves for the lost and thinking of what would happen in the future without Mr. Mallard. Through the sadness and sorrow, there lie a spark of happiness. She realize the awakening of this new vitality. Unfortunately, this new vitality ended with a big surprise when her husband suddenly appear at the front door only for her to recognize that the news was a false, causing Mrs. Mallard’s weak heart to fail. She die not from the happiness when she saw her husband, but rather die because the realization that her new freedom is lost. Chopin illustrates how there are loneliness in a marriage by first telling us how she grieves her husband who had loved her but later overcome by the joy of freedom within “an hour” as the title suggested. …show more content…
Mallard is associated with a “heart trouble” (459), her family, with a very precisely care, break the news to her only to leave her grieves for her husband as she walk up to her room. Louise cry and weep fiercely like a “storm of grief” (459) alone in her room. Chopin describes how Mrs. Mallard sits “motionless” (459) and only move when sob. This illustrate the images of lifelessness in the story and suggesting that she is having a flashback when they were both happily lived together. Now, she imagining at the funeral, she would cry over Mr. Mallard’s dead body again. However, that feeling changes quickly from grief to