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What Is Kate Chopin's Purpose Of The Story Of An Hour

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Kate Chopin’s purpose of this writing was to display that women during the 1800s felt trapped in their marriages. For example, Kate Chopin exhibited this when the woman was only known as Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard didn’t have a name for herself since the men during these times had most of the control. Furthermore, Kate Chopin used the quote. “Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.” To make a reference to the matter that Mrs. Mallard not only felt emotionally exhausted from the marriage but over time she began to also become physically exhausted as well. Kate Chopin also used ideas of imagery to give an idea to the readers on how Mrs. Mallard felt to finally know she
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