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Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis

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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” This quote by Mark Twain says that if a person is ready for death will be prepared to die whenever the time come. Many suffering people wish for death to escape what is holding them back. A person who is faced with pain and restriction in their life may see death as a release or as a chance at freedom. In The Story Of An Hour by Kate Chopin, a death that results in release from restriction is shown in the main character Mrs. Mallard when her husband “dies”. For example, she feels a sense of freedom and starts chanting it over and over again. “When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly …show more content…

She finally felt free after her husband died, showing you can feel free if a death occurs. Another example is when she was thinking to herself about how even though she had loved him, she was finally free and finally had time to herself. “ And yet she had loved him - sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!” (Chopin) This quotation shows that while, yes she had loved him, she often didn’t and she finally could be alone and without a man to take care of her. She finally feels free and it’s all because Mr. Mallard is finally away from her. In a final example, when her “late” husband finally walks in through the door, she drops dead. It isn’t out of excitement or out of love, it’s because her only chance at freedom and alone time is taken from her just as soon as she received it. “Someone one was opening the front door with a latch key. It was Brently Mallard Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and

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