Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis
The Story of an Hour: The Hope of Freedom but The Confinement of the Heart
Though her heart was confined, her soul longed for freedom. Louise Mallard was given the tragic news of her husband’s death. Frail and weekend from heart trouble, she found an unusual hope that would soon lead down the stairs of no return. In “The Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin examines the anticipation for a newfound freedom through, thoughts of fear, feelings of salvation, and the effects of the reality that it will never come, proving that tragedy can enhance people’s perception of freedom only to realize the confinement of the heart.
Thoughts of fear in the mist of a horrific event will always creep up in the victim’s mind, and this proves true for Louise in the news of Brently’s death. Louise had heart trouble and was in her …show more content…
They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body (395).
When she stopped fighting herself and allowed freedom to become her salvation, she began to whisper, “free, free, free” (395). Her sister, afraid of what was going on, begged her to open the door and this was Louise’s reply, “Go away. I am not making myself ill" (395). She was drinking in her salvation of freedom.
Finally one’s hope being crushed by the effect of reality brings this tragic day to a close. The author gives us a hint that reality comes quickly in the beginning of this story and in the end.
She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister 's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her
Though her heart was confined, her soul longed for freedom. Louise Mallard was given the tragic news of her husband’s death. Frail and weekend from heart trouble, she found an unusual hope that would soon lead down the stairs of no return. In “The Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin examines the anticipation for a newfound freedom through, thoughts of fear, feelings of salvation, and the effects of the reality that it will never come, proving that tragedy can enhance people’s perception of freedom only to realize the confinement of the heart.
Thoughts of fear in the mist of a horrific event will always creep up in the victim’s mind, and this proves true for Louise in the news of Brently’s death. Louise had heart trouble and was in her …show more content…
They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body (395).
When she stopped fighting herself and allowed freedom to become her salvation, she began to whisper, “free, free, free” (395). Her sister, afraid of what was going on, begged her to open the door and this was Louise’s reply, “Go away. I am not making myself ill" (395). She was drinking in her salvation of freedom.
Finally one’s hope being crushed by the effect of reality brings this tragic day to a close. The author gives us a hint that reality comes quickly in the beginning of this story and in the end.
She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister 's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her