Emotional Change In The Story Of An Hour
The most powerful way to experience emotions is to encounter polar opposite feelings at the same time. In the story of an hour the main character Mrs. Mallard experiences grief and joy in around the same moment. The story shows how situations can be perceived in different ways depending on your outlook. In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard copes with the supposed death of her husband through polar opposite emotions that happen in less than an hour.
Mrs. Mallard copes with what she believes to be the loss of her husband in a very peculiar way. The normal response to death of a loved one would be grief which she does go through, but that quickly changes. You would under normal circumstances assume that she would go from grief to another stage …show more content…
Mallard mean when she says that she’s “free”. She became free from her husband and gained a newfound happiness. The reason she becomes happy isn’t because she didn’t love her, but it was because her husband had stopped her from doing everything that she wanted to do. He hadn’t physically stopped her but just the fact that they were married reduced the amount of activities Mrs. Mallard could perform.
This story has a very drastic and fast emotion change that occurs. The entire story takes place within the small timespan of only an hour and in that time the mood of the story completely changes. The emotional changes causes the story to start out as a sorrowful story of death and grieving to a story of rejoice over freedom caused by the same death. The emotional changes that occur throughout the story are so drastic and sudden that it eventually ends up causing the death of Mrs. Mallard.
The entire story was based off of an incorrect assumption that later proved itself to be incorrect. The assumption made was that Mrs. Mallards husband had died in a train accident which never actually happened. The mistake wasn’t entirely Mrs. Mallards sister and her husbands friend who were informing her, but it was also the fault of two different news outlets that gave incorrect information. If the situation was more thoroughly looked at before making assumptions the entire situation could have been
Mrs. Mallard copes with what she believes to be the loss of her husband in a very peculiar way. The normal response to death of a loved one would be grief which she does go through, but that quickly changes. You would under normal circumstances assume that she would go from grief to another stage …show more content…
Mallard mean when she says that she’s “free”. She became free from her husband and gained a newfound happiness. The reason she becomes happy isn’t because she didn’t love her, but it was because her husband had stopped her from doing everything that she wanted to do. He hadn’t physically stopped her but just the fact that they were married reduced the amount of activities Mrs. Mallard could perform.
This story has a very drastic and fast emotion change that occurs. The entire story takes place within the small timespan of only an hour and in that time the mood of the story completely changes. The emotional changes causes the story to start out as a sorrowful story of death and grieving to a story of rejoice over freedom caused by the same death. The emotional changes that occur throughout the story are so drastic and sudden that it eventually ends up causing the death of Mrs. Mallard.
The entire story was based off of an incorrect assumption that later proved itself to be incorrect. The assumption made was that Mrs. Mallards husband had died in a train accident which never actually happened. The mistake wasn’t entirely Mrs. Mallards sister and her husbands friend who were informing her, but it was also the fault of two different news outlets that gave incorrect information. If the situation was more thoroughly looked at before making assumptions the entire situation could have been