Story Of An Hour Sacrifice

Tragic news is about to be given to a wife, who suffers from heart trouble. Her condition is why her family and close friends need to break the news very gently of her husband’s death. In “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin portrays Ms. Mallards character with an outbreak of grief, an inability of assimilation, ability of reflection, and an ability of clear significance at the end. Ms. Mallard new understanding of autonomy excited her, once taken away from her she becomes unavailable. The struggles she faces to help her accept her autonomy gives her a tragic ending.
As Ms. Mallard is given the news for her husband’s train disaster, she is full of grief and is presented with a denial of what could be new life. The wife or now widow seems be oppressed with the married life. In the short story is says “there would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature” gives a statement about how their relationship had been. Around the 1894’s women were portrayed as less than men. Women were to be pure, submissive to their husbands, and were to stay home to take care of the house and family. She seemed to have struggled with that life if she had such a loving husband and yet later on feel joy of
This is a great symbolic figure representing the beginning of what she sees, what’s going to be her new free life. The nature form outside the window and all its scenes begin to possess her as she abandons her grief and inability to accept her change. She continuously claims the word “Free” under her breathe. This is the point where she accepts the death of her husband in compromise to her renewed autonomy. She becomes injected with a new self-assertion that would now become only hers for the next year to come without him as her final