The Delusional Incident

The Delusional Incident “The Story of an Hour” (1894) is a story which can be easily relatable in that era. This era was trying to up bring women’s power and influence the society to change from a traditional mentality to a new era of women’s life, the people of the U.S. started to take actions against women’s suffrage. The movements of these activities led many women to encourage and become an independent female. In “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin was trying to highlights important morals for female to be patient, courageous and hopeful for future life. The story clearly indicates the difference in gender role, major section of independentism, and empowering the women. The Story had a tragic end in which the doctor totally fakes about
Mallards was unpredictable and vivid from Josephine, when she got the news about her husband’s death. Her reaction after the news was disastrous when “she sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.” (Kate Chopin, 71) She was shocked in the first place of the news arrival after some interval she started to realize that the world is cruel and she has to face the consequences alone then “[s]he said it over and over under the breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes.” (Kate Chopin, 71) Kate Chopin was getting motivated by the women’s suffrage movements and activities in the 1894 was influenced to write this short story. When Denial says that “The Story of an Hour” lacks the kind of diagrammatic clarity that some readers may except, mainly or even exclusively, as I have tried to suggest, because of one curious passage.” (Denial P. Deneau,212) This statement kind of reflects the personal connection to the living world of the writer’s experience which causes to interpret the missing details in the sense of sexual