Kate Chopin's The Story Of The Hour
Kate Chopins The Story of the Hour was a short story full of emotions. The story begins in a quiet somber tone, gets busy and exciting, and eventually ends in the death of Mrs. Mallard. The story has many ups and downs even though it is a short story.
In the beginning of the story, you feel like it is going to be a sad story since its starts off with Mr. Mallard’s friend Richards hearing that Mr. Mallard had been killed in a train wreck. He made sure to double check on the information before telling anyone. He then got with Josephine, Mrs. Mallards’ sister to help break the news to her since Mrs. Mallard has a bad heart. Josephine is the one to tell her the news. Everything seems sad when Mrs. Mallard is told. When reading the story you feel
so bad for her, especially when she goes to her room by herself.
Mrs. Mallard stands in front of the window, looks out then sits in “a comfortable, roomy armchair.” (57) She is looking out and describing what she sees and eventually you see that her sadness is turning into something different. Mrs. Mallard herself did not know what was going on and then it hit her. She was actually happy for the first time in a long time. She whispered under her breath “Free! Free! Free!” (57) She was overwhelmed with emotions and you then realize she is not in her room to sulk and be sad, she went to her room so that no one else could see her emotions change. She knew and feared that it would happen and it did.
Mrs. Mallard was as it seems, unhappy in her marriage. She felt trapped, isolated, and became bitter. After hearing of Mr. Mallards death, she felt relieved, relaxed, and that she now had the freedom to do what she wanted. You get the feeling that Mr. Mallard may have abused her or trapped her in the house. Maybe he was a very mean man and never allowed her to go anywhere or even talk to anyone. Then Mrs. Mallard describes how Mr. Mallard did love her very much and you realize that he was none of those things you thought. He was a nice man. Mrs. Mallard just did not want to be married.
After Mrs. Mallard has been in the room for so long, her guests start to get worried and try to get her to open the door. She does not want to do so, most likely because she does not want them to see her filled with joy. Her sister thinks she may be harming herself or making herself ill. Mrs. Mallard informs she is doing no such thing and after looking outside again and composing herself she decides to go outside her room and face everyone again. She proceeds down there stairs and then stops when she sees someone opening the door outside. In walks Mr. Mallard, alive and well. He was not even near the train accident, in fact he was far from it. Mrs. Mallard lets out a scream, Richards tries to hide Mr. Mallard from her view but it is to late and Mrs. Mallard collapses to her death right there.
The Drs say “she died of heart disease- of joy that kills.”
In the beginning of the story, you feel like it is going to be a sad story since its starts off with Mr. Mallard’s friend Richards hearing that Mr. Mallard had been killed in a train wreck. He made sure to double check on the information before telling anyone. He then got with Josephine, Mrs. Mallards’ sister to help break the news to her since Mrs. Mallard has a bad heart. Josephine is the one to tell her the news. Everything seems sad when Mrs. Mallard is told. When reading the story you feel
so bad for her, especially when she goes to her room by herself.
Mrs. Mallard stands in front of the window, looks out then sits in “a comfortable, roomy armchair.” (57) She is looking out and describing what she sees and eventually you see that her sadness is turning into something different. Mrs. Mallard herself did not know what was going on and then it hit her. She was actually happy for the first time in a long time. She whispered under her breath “Free! Free! Free!” (57) She was overwhelmed with emotions and you then realize she is not in her room to sulk and be sad, she went to her room so that no one else could see her emotions change. She knew and feared that it would happen and it did.
Mrs. Mallard was as it seems, unhappy in her marriage. She felt trapped, isolated, and became bitter. After hearing of Mr. Mallards death, she felt relieved, relaxed, and that she now had the freedom to do what she wanted. You get the feeling that Mr. Mallard may have abused her or trapped her in the house. Maybe he was a very mean man and never allowed her to go anywhere or even talk to anyone. Then Mrs. Mallard describes how Mr. Mallard did love her very much and you realize that he was none of those things you thought. He was a nice man. Mrs. Mallard just did not want to be married.
After Mrs. Mallard has been in the room for so long, her guests start to get worried and try to get her to open the door. She does not want to do so, most likely because she does not want them to see her filled with joy. Her sister thinks she may be harming herself or making herself ill. Mrs. Mallard informs she is doing no such thing and after looking outside again and composing herself she decides to go outside her room and face everyone again. She proceeds down there stairs and then stops when she sees someone opening the door outside. In walks Mr. Mallard, alive and well. He was not even near the train accident, in fact he was far from it. Mrs. Mallard lets out a scream, Richards tries to hide Mr. Mallard from her view but it is to late and Mrs. Mallard collapses to her death right there.
The Drs say “she died of heart disease- of joy that kills.”