Kate Chopin's Story Of An Hour

Kate Chopin states, “One who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul”. Diving into Kate Chopin’s “story of an hour” reflect a very profound meaning about the marriage institution. The depiction of the social norms, which were excruciating for women in the 19th century. As the story continues, it shows a female character “Mrs. Mallard” who were able to achieve freedom and discovering her true identity from the death of her husband. The story accounts Mrs. Mallard as a strong woman beyond recognition, despite having a husband who commanded and controlled her, she was able to do gain her happiness even if it was for a short period of time. In another way, you
The death of a spouse can cause conflicted emotion such as the common symptoms of grief, anger, and guilt. Kate Chopin “story of an hour gives the exact contrary of that, by giving the reader the example of a situation when the wife is a victim of family relations. Cunningham emphasized that “the story portrays the position of women in late nineteenth-century American society as so bleak that the attempt to break from the life-denying limitations of patriarchal society is itself self-destructive” (49). For a long period of time women have been considered the inferior sex and, therefore, expected to be subservient to men. Louise Mallard has become a widow, but she is in no condition of feeling remorse about her husband’s death. By comparing and contrasting Mrs. Mallard relationship with Brently and her new way of life as a liberated woman, and the privileged existence is undoubtedly that of an independent. “The story of an hour” revealed how a devastating news can provoke an individual to be free, and becomes independence and can quickly change to death. Mrs. Mallard gaining a sense of freedom from the loss of her husband provide the reader with the vivid picture of the way she felt about her husband. Many women in the 19th century didn’t have the opportunity to be free from their relation, and Mrs. Mallard was able to achieve it, even if it was for a second, this shows you the strength of Mrs.
Mallard begins to realize that she is now a free woman. To be more direct in the 19th-century women was not allow to have to same right as men in marriage, American law accepted the principle that a wife had no legal identity apart from her husband. The author describes Louise’s character begin to expresses her feelings of dismay at the idea of being trapped in the patriarchal relationship. In Cunningham’s discussion essay how it’s evident from early on in the short story that Louise does not feel satisfied or empowered by her marriage, but feels discouraged and trapped by it (1). According to the women right article, In the 19th century if a woman wasn’t happy in her marriage she did not have the option of a divorce. She could not be sued, nor could she bring a legal suit; she could not make a contract, nor could she own property. Women were not permitted to control her own wages or gain custody of her children in case of separation or divorce (women’s right 1). In another word, the only way women could be free from a marriage is through death. Which brought the reader to understand Mrs. Mallard wish to be free, and the feeling of no sympathy for the death of her husband death. Mrs. Mallard was able to gain the feeling if