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Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis

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Men have culturally become the head of the household; the alpha. Authors like Kate Chopin have a different view, one in which women are no longer house wife’s but entrepreneurs’. The literary feature “The Story of an Hour” focuses on the belief of women independence. The idea of women independence began to rise as the industrial revolution and women were given the chance to work in factories while the men worked the farms. Women began to ask for freedom and individuality, they wanted to feel equal to men. Mrs. Mallard, the protagonist of the story felt controlled by her husband, but she had a moment of freedom and it was the best hour of her life. In the story Louise Mallard’s husband, Brently Mallard was proclaimed dead due to a train crash.
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