Story Of The Hour Analysis
An Examination of “The Story of the Hour”
After reading The Story of the Hour, I was surprised by the ending and the announcement of Mrs. Mallard’s death. The story painted Mrs. Mallard in a harsh way but after some thinking I came to the conclusion that Mrs. Mallard although sad that her husband was gone she was going to keep living her life and enjoy the time she had left in the world. The story starts off telling of Mrs. Mallard having heart disease and they must find someone to break some terrible news to her to make sure and not upset her condition. Josephine, Mrs. Mallard’s sister, was chosen to break the terrible news of her husband’s death. Josephine danced around the subject “in broken sentences; veiled …show more content…
Mallard begins to cope with the loss of her husband when she goes up to her room alone she reflects on her life and how this will affect her. She looks out a window and in the sky. The clouds are starting to part and the storm is over is the author using imagery to describe a new chapter to Mrs. Mallard’s life. She did not know what she would feel but she knew something was coming when it finally did the words she muttered were “free, free, free” (Clungston, 2010) she was free to live her life. I think her marriage was a decent marriage for the times, but it was a time when women were controlled by their husbands and were thought as a weaker form than man. She was seeing the light of not having to please anyone and would be able to live for herself and enjoy life to the fullest she even said a little pray to make her life a long and happy one. She did love her husband though because the story said that “she would weep again when she saw the kind tender hands folded in death” (Clungston, 2010), but she had accepted her faith and was ready to move on with a type of joy of living a carefree life. The open window in the short story is an important thing to notice when reading the story. On three occasions the author refers to the window looking out on the world. One time stating “she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window” (Clungston, 2010) this window is imagery to describe freedom from having to wait on her husband. It shows that the world
After reading The Story of the Hour, I was surprised by the ending and the announcement of Mrs. Mallard’s death. The story painted Mrs. Mallard in a harsh way but after some thinking I came to the conclusion that Mrs. Mallard although sad that her husband was gone she was going to keep living her life and enjoy the time she had left in the world. The story starts off telling of Mrs. Mallard having heart disease and they must find someone to break some terrible news to her to make sure and not upset her condition. Josephine, Mrs. Mallard’s sister, was chosen to break the terrible news of her husband’s death. Josephine danced around the subject “in broken sentences; veiled …show more content…
Mallard begins to cope with the loss of her husband when she goes up to her room alone she reflects on her life and how this will affect her. She looks out a window and in the sky. The clouds are starting to part and the storm is over is the author using imagery to describe a new chapter to Mrs. Mallard’s life. She did not know what she would feel but she knew something was coming when it finally did the words she muttered were “free, free, free” (Clungston, 2010) she was free to live her life. I think her marriage was a decent marriage for the times, but it was a time when women were controlled by their husbands and were thought as a weaker form than man. She was seeing the light of not having to please anyone and would be able to live for herself and enjoy life to the fullest she even said a little pray to make her life a long and happy one. She did love her husband though because the story said that “she would weep again when she saw the kind tender hands folded in death” (Clungston, 2010), but she had accepted her faith and was ready to move on with a type of joy of living a carefree life. The open window in the short story is an important thing to notice when reading the story. On three occasions the author refers to the window looking out on the world. One time stating “she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window” (Clungston, 2010) this window is imagery to describe freedom from having to wait on her husband. It shows that the world