Caged Birds In Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

Caged Birds Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour touches upon numerous aspects of the struggles women face in their daily lives. At the time it was written in 1894, women were governed by their husbands. They were the homemaker, the mother, and the wife. The expectations of women did not permit them to be much else without being an abomination to their communities. Chopin provides a woman’s perspective way ahead of her time, enabling her readers to contemplate the freedom or lack thereof which women possess. To begin, Chopin’s work illustrates the idea of a husband’s death releasing a wife. Mrs. Mallard, the wife, reacts to the news of her husband’s death in an utterly shocking manner. Her sister, Josephine, is worried Mrs. Mallard will not