An Hour Response
"The Story of An Hour" Reader's Response
After I read the short story "Story of an hour" by Kate Chopin I was surprised about marriages from back in time, and how women barely had any rights. The story expresses a woman's hurt, and pain towards the supposed death of her husband. The news takes her by surprise, and she becomes more depressed with her life. Kate Chopin uses profound language to depict her pain and sorrow.
When Mrs. Mallard hears the new's about her husband's death she is appalled and surprised. The passage states, Mrs. Mallard "did not hear the story as many women have heard the same with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance." She wept in her sister's arms with wild abandonment, and once the storm of grief had spent …show more content…
As she sat in the armchair looking outside the window, she noticed all of the beautiful things right in front of her "new spring life with patches of the blue sky." All Louise could keep saying to herself were "Free! Body and soul free!' The passage also states "There was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of the patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought." This makes me think of a visual about Mrs.Mallard new life flashing right before her eyes. At this point I started to resent Mrs.Mallard because I could not understand how a woman could be this excited when she just found out about her husband's death. But, then I remembered Mrs.Mallard only loved her husband sometimes because she always felt trapped in her marriage with barely any communication. I did my research on a typical day for a housewife in the 1800's and my
After I read the short story "Story of an hour" by Kate Chopin I was surprised about marriages from back in time, and how women barely had any rights. The story expresses a woman's hurt, and pain towards the supposed death of her husband. The news takes her by surprise, and she becomes more depressed with her life. Kate Chopin uses profound language to depict her pain and sorrow.
When Mrs. Mallard hears the new's about her husband's death she is appalled and surprised. The passage states, Mrs. Mallard "did not hear the story as many women have heard the same with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance." She wept in her sister's arms with wild abandonment, and once the storm of grief had spent …show more content…
As she sat in the armchair looking outside the window, she noticed all of the beautiful things right in front of her "new spring life with patches of the blue sky." All Louise could keep saying to herself were "Free! Body and soul free!' The passage also states "There was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of the patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought." This makes me think of a visual about Mrs.Mallard new life flashing right before her eyes. At this point I started to resent Mrs.Mallard because I could not understand how a woman could be this excited when she just found out about her husband's death. But, then I remembered Mrs.Mallard only loved her husband sometimes because she always felt trapped in her marriage with barely any communication. I did my research on a typical day for a housewife in the 1800's and my