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Window In Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

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In “The story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, window is the symbol of freedom and new life. Opening the window mean not only toventilation and to daylight in real function, but also to have a new point of view and new life. The theme of this story is independence, and the window symbolizes it. In this story, Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, and she was told her husband’s death by her sister Josephine. She became alone. Chopin notes “There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that hunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.” She refuses to let Josephine and husband’s friend Richards follow her. This opening window and action that she looks
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