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The Story of an Hour
Leaving the window open certainly relates to Mrs. Mallard's freedom. If you read the passage again, she notices all of the wonderful things of life that are happening below, things she's never been...
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The Story of an Hour
In the first sentence of the story, Louise is referred to as Mrs. Mallard: Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible...
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The Story of an Hour
I think you would have to say that the narrator has a negative attitude towards the institution of marriage. At least, the narrator gives to Mrs. Mallard some very negative thoughts about the...
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The Story of an Hour
In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" the author uses both direct and indirect characterization. Direct characterization is when a writer simply states a character's specific traits. Indirect...
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The Story of an Hour
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin shows a different point of view about marriage. In the time of the story, married women were not masters of their fate. They relied on their husbands for...
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The Story of an Hour
Much of the symbolism used in "The Story of an Hour" is meant to symbolize the freedom and happiness that Louise Mallard has longed for throughout her marriage, perhaps even throughout her entire...
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The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" is a masterpiece of the literary technique of irony; even the title is ironic in that so much that is unexpected happens in the life of Louise Mallard in just...
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The Story of an Hour
In Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard is a round character. A round character is one who is developed or goes through a change throughout the story. Mrs. Mallard...
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The Story of an Hour
Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” contains examples of situational irony, which reveals the discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens, as well as dramatic irony, which...
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The Story of an Hour
In "The Story" of an hour we find mainly symbolism and allegory imagery situational and dramatic irony The symbolism, or representation of one of thing with another, is evident in Louise's weak...
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The Story of an Hour
There is very little dialogue in Kate Chopin's 1894 short story. In fact, Louise Mallard utters few words aloud, except for whispering "free, free, free" and "Free! Body and soul free!" to herself...
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The Story of an Hour
Much of the repetition of words or phrases in the story serves to reinforce Louise Mallard's sense of her new freedom. The word "open" is used multiple times: the window in Louise's bedroom is...
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The Story of an Hour
There are few if any details in the story that place it specifically in the late 19th century. But there are nonetheless certain clues that it takes place at some point in the 19th century. For one...
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The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” argues the importance of self-discovery and personal freedom. In the story, Mrs. Louise Mallard learns that her husband has died in a train...
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The Story of an Hour
Verbal irony is when a character says something but means something else. Taken literally, the character seems to mean one thing. Actually, they mean to communicate something completely different...
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The Story of an Hour
In Freudian theory, the human psyche is divided into three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the home of our primitive, unbridled desires—the place where our sexual drives lurk,...
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The Story of an Hour
One literary element we might consider is conflict. I would argue that the main conflict in this story is between Louise Mallard and society, rather than between Louise and Brently Mallard, as one...
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The Story of an Hour
Shortly after Mrs. Mallard receives the news of Brently's death, she locks herself in her room and begins to reflect on how her life has significantly changed for the better. She proceeds to sit in...
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The Story of an Hour
The massive change that occurs in the character of Mrs. Mallard of course is due to firstly the news that her husband has died and secondly that he has not actually died. The first bit of news...
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The Story of an Hour
This post is asking three separate questions; however, questions 1 and 2 are closely related, and an answer can be woven together in order to answer both of them. The first question asks about a...
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The Story of an Hour
Exposition introduces the characters, setting, and overall background to set up the story. Within the first line of “The Story of an Hour,” author Kate Chopin introduces both the protagonist...
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The Story of an Hour
One could argue that Josephine does not know her sister that well in Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." Josephine is depicted as a concerned sister who has a difficult time breaking the...
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The Story of an Hour
What really kills Louisa in the end is discovering, just at the moment she is grasping freedom for the first time in her life, that her husband is still alive. The thought that her freedom to be...
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The Story of an Hour
"The Story of an Hour" tells the story of Louise Mallard, a very recent widow who, at the beginning of the story, is informed of her husband's death. Those who break the news to her do so...
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The Story of an Hour
The goal of Louise Mallard in "The Story of an Hour" is probably best expressed as freedom or liberation. When she believes that her husband is dead, she feels no grief but is profoundly relieved....
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The Story of an Hour
At the end of this story, Louise Mallard dies of "heart disease -- the joy that kills," according to her doctors. However, after reading the story, readers can ascertain Chopin's irony: Louise did...
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The Story of an Hour
The first line that pops into my head right now is the very ending line, the one where the doctor proclaims that Louise Mallard had died "of joy that kills." That line is loaded with meaning and...
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The Story of an Hour
Similarities between the two books are not immediately apparent: one is a work of fiction; the other, a political polemic. Nevertheless, one can detect some point of comparison in the title of...
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The Story of an Hour
This is a perceptive question because it recognizes the importance that setting can have not only in establishing the time period and place of the plotline, but also in telling the reader something...
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The Story of an Hour
The main conflict in "The Story of an Hour" is character vs. society. Mrs. Mallard's adversary is not her husband, as some might argue, but society, due to society's expectations for right female...
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The Story of an Hour
The setting of this story is the home of Brently and Louise Mallard. Louise's sister, Josephine, breaks the news of her husband's death to Mrs. Mallard, and then Mrs. Mallard proceeds to spend the...
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The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin employs foreshadowing with irony and symbolism as she leads the writer to the surprise ending of her "Story of an Hour." Like the plan of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Chopin's story...
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These paragraphs add a lot of depth and layers to the story itself. In these paragraphs, Chopin uses the setting as symbol to represent Louise's coming exaltation of freedom. She has just heard...
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The Story of an Hour
After Mrs. Mallard retreats to her room following news that her husband has died, she undergoes a transformation. She sits to look out her bedroom window and notes the signs of new life all around...
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The Story of an Hour
In Kate Chopin's short story, Mrs. Mallard has just been informed of her husband's death. She retreats to her room, sits in her chair and gazes out the window. The scene is described as an "open...
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The Story of an Hour
Works of literary realism aim to represent reality in a truthful way. Realist writers often write about everyday people doing everyday things, going about their lives in a way that is meant to feel...
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The Story of an Hour
If "The Story of an Hour" is anything to go by, not very much. Through the characterization of Mrs. Mallard, Chopin presents marriage as a stifling, restrictive institution that prevents women from...
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The Story of an Hour
The time of year is spring. It is important because in spring, everything is alive with new life and motion: She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all...
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The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin depicts upper class marriage at the turn of the 19th century as confining and largely loveless. When Mrs. Mallard is told her husband dies, the impression given to the reader is that...
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The Story of an Hour
In "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard's sister Josephine tells her that her husband has been killed in a train accident. Although she initially mourns, afterwards as she sits alone...
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The internal and external conflicts in this story must be inferred from what information we are given. There is a strong internal conflict in Mrs. Mallard, and one clear external conflict is with...
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This is such a significant omission because Mrs. Mallard feels that she has only existed as Mrs. Mallard for so many years. She has devoted the majority of her life to caring for her husband. His...
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The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin presents a situation in which the protagonist loses her husband, suffers immediately from grief that turns into relief, regains her husband, and then dies herself. Because the situation...
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The Story of an Hour
Throughout "The Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard believes that her husband Brently has been killed that day in a railroad accident. In the hour after receiving this information, Louise cries and...
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The Story of an Hour
The setting of this story is actually very limited, which could be used by Chopin to reflect the feeling of Mrs. Mallard being trapped in her life and almost caged in. The entire story occurs in...
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The Story of an Hour
When we consider narration in any given work of literature, we are actually thinking about point of view and the choice that the author has made in terms of how to tell the story, or from which...
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The Story of an Hour
When Brently Mallard is first seen in the final lines of Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," he announced that he was nowhere near the tragic train disaster of which he was a supposed victim. In...
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The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin was a feminist, and she created a sympathetic character in Louise Mallard. Because she is caring wife who feels sorrow for the untimely death of her husband, she cries when she hears...
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The Story of an Hour
In Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," the woman is expected to feel badly about her husband's death. The other characters are worried that her heart trouble could cause a problem because she is...
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The Story of an Hour
At the beginning of "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard's sister and a family friend have bad news to deliver, and they are very cautious because Louise "is afflicted with a heart...
