The Story of an Hour Group

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housets4lyf
housets4lyf
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High School - 12th Grade

To what extent is this story a journey?

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Posted by housets4lyf on Saturday October 17, 2009 at 6:16 PM and tagged with character, general, journey, the story of an hour.

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  1. bullgatortail
    bullgatortail Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Louise Mallard begins a journey, albeit a very short one, in Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." When the news is broken to her--carefully, because of her weak heart--concerning her husband's apparent death in a train accident, Louise immediately begins planning her new life without her overbearing husband.

         "...free, free, free!... she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her completely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.
         "...she would live for herself."

    Her husband would no longer be able to control her or impose his will. She thought about the upcoming spring and summer. She prayed now that her life would be a long one, a different view from which she held only twenty four hours before. Her journey would be a freeing of both the body and soul.

    However, that journey would only last for a few moments, for when she descended the stairs, "a goddess of Victory," she found her husband entering the house. He, too, has been on a journey, but he has not been killed in the accident. He has returned from his trip. It was Louise's journey that now ended from a heart attack--"a joy that kills." 

     

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    Posted by bullgatortail on Saturday October 17, 2009 at 8:21 PM

  2. banu
    banu Student
    College - Freshman

    THE WOMAN LE BTER SORROW AFTER HER HUSBAND DEAD BUT AFTER SHE REALE HER FREEDOM..THE REST OF HER LE ONLY BEYOND TO HER.. THE SPRG SYMBOLE THE REEBTH SO WOMAN FEEL HERSELF AS A NEW BORN CHD AS A FLYG BDS ...AND SHE FEEL HER FREDOM AFTER THE BTER SORROWFUL MOMENTS...

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    Posted by banu on Sunday October 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM