Miss Brill And The Story Of An Hour

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During the school year the social issues of Gender, Race, and Industry were all discussed. One of the issues that stands out is the issue of gender, which the stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Miss Brill”. These stories are relevant to the issue of gender because they were both written during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this time period women were starting to protest the traditional women’s role in the family and in society, which effects both the characters in the story and the authors of the stories. Though these stories are different they ask the readers the question, how a women responds to being left alone in the world? Is it beneficial to them or a tragedy? In the stories “Miss
She faced criticism in her work as she wrote on the subject of sex and love. Because of this, magazine editors turned down her work to protect their own image. This is mentioned in the short bibliography about Kate Chopin where it states “Chopin wrote freely on the subject of sex and love (..)Magazine editors turned down her work as it challenged social behavior” (176). This quote analysis the instability of America on the subject to speak freely on certain matters including love, and expressing those opinions publicly in the 1890s. During this time period the media, like magazine companies put limitations on the type of literary work presented to them and the type of person that presented those views. In one article it states that - “Chopin`s desire to distance herself from traditional women`s writing-conceivably her impulse in creating these three disparaging portraits-appears to link her to the ranks of these “honorary males.””(Thomas 22) In this article, Heather Thomas, argues that because Chopin didn’t write in the traditional manners that women in that century wrote in she became outstandingly popular that her rank as an author was compared to honorary male’s authors. Because of Chopin`s work, the stereotypical “honorary males”, which challenged the expansion of women
In the story grief does not affect Louise Mallard but the taste of freedom does. With this she imagines how her life is going to be but doesn’t get a chance to live it, because her husband is alive and when she sees him alive, she ironically dies, having that one hour of Freedom. The ending of the story makes the story that much enjoyable because of the twist that Chopin puts in it because it states that “When the doctors came they said she died of heart disease- of joy that kills”(Chopin 182). At the end of the story, after discovering that her husband is alive, Louise rapidly passes away. One reason that Chopin argues for in the quote is, that after having that feeling of freedom for almost the entire story, seeing her husband reminded her of the freedom she might lose, that she rather die of her heart condition. In a critical analysis article by Gilberts, she states that “Little effort of elucidation is needed to understand that it is about the sense of freedom enjoyed by a woman during the hour she mistakenly thinks that she is a widow, until she discovers that her husband is still alive”(Gilbert 80). In this quote it is argued for that having freedom means not having a male provider in the family, who in the traditional 19th century made living with difficult. That’s why when there is no other companion that you have to take orders from, a