An Hour Literary Analysis Essay

Pleasure of Freedom to Death The name of the story is “An Hour” by Kate Chopin, the author explained this story through the implicit sense of character reaction after hearing her husband death news from her sister. Mrs. Mallards who is not happy wife due to the author, she didn’t react really hard as usually women do after listening to the tragic news of husband death. It is maybe because she was not happy with her husband, she can’t leave him before because it was against parent’s reputation if their daughter got the divorce. Moreover, in this story author explicit the theme of “Independence and Freedom to express yourself” and the literary devices author used throughout the story is setting, and imagery. The literary device that grabs reader attention is setting, Chopin defined how dramatic irony happened in just “An Hour”. Because of that author gave the title for this story “An Hour”, Mrs. Mallards life changes in an hour. She was alive from the outside, but inside she was dead. Because of her commanding husband. The author defines that she was not pleased with husband attitude. “She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of
The author defines Mrs. Mallard’s reaction to a tragic news by creating picture in reader mind. As the author said “She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams” (Chopin, Par. 7). The sense of her feeling and joy explained reader her true feeling, each object that author mentioned is related to her freedom and independence to express herself. She started dreaming of desires again that she didn’t complete because of her