Story Of An Hour Response Essay

I chose “The Story of An Hour”because it was different and unique. In the short story there was two main themes, Love and alienation. This story was written by Kate Chopin in 1894. The main character is Louis Mallard in other words the protagonist of Chopin’s. Mrs. Louise is heart troubled, and loneliness appears when Richards and Josephine break the heart troubling news that her husbands dead in the listings of those who were killed in a train accident. The very first sentence of the story portrays love, because she took the news of her husband harshly because she simply loved him. News like this to many women would be devastating but Mrs. Mallard doesn’t seem to mourn for very long. The language in this story such as the details Chopin uses are desperation to the society we have today, through

The effect that has on Mrs. Mallard is that she knows that all of her freedom is gone. The disappointment kills Mrs. Mallard In the fact of that matter because she began looking forward to her days instead of dreading them. Now, all that’s running though her mind is that she’ll have to spend the rest of her life no more than just his wife. Mr. Mallard wasn’t a bad husband he was the type of husband to direct his wife in everything she does. Now that Mrs Mallard has had a taste of what it would’ve been like without her husband, she’s sadden. When she sees him she’s in shock and screams it’s to much for her to handle. She was looking forward to her life so simple with shudder. But that takes a turn when the doctor later examines Mrs. Mallard and pronounces her dead because of her weak heart that she had. Although, there is a tragedy to her death it is the end of her repressed life. What she failed to do in her life, she did so in her death. The disappointment of losing everything killed her what she thought she had