The Story of an Hour Analysis

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Subject Area:Literature

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The story is about a woman who is made to believe that her husband is dead and contemplate the new life of freedom for herself. In “The Story of an hour” authored by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard’s emotions remain unstable as she goes through a moment of psychological self-actualization until her last breath. Through irony and imagination, Chopin navigates her readers into the emotions of Mrs. Mallard, the protagonist of the short story. This can be evidenced in the excerpt: “She went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her” (Chopin, pg. This is a surprising yet clear indication that Mrs. Mallard was passionate of her husband’s death. No wonder she chose to go to her room alone, for it was the only place she will be comfortable to think.

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Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble; great care was taken to break the news to her as gently as possible” (Chopin, pg. Mrs. Mallard was a young woman (in her thoughts she fantasizes about the long procession of years she will have) who had just lost her husband. Naturally, getting over her husband’s death was difficult: “She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long” (Chopin, pg. The song that someone was singing from afar helped ease the emotional pain that she felt. People, however, thought that she died because she was informed of her husband’s survival. A clear indication that the people surrounding her did not understand what she was going through. The paper lightens character of Mrs.

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