The Story of an Hour: Modernist Theory
Kate Chopin’s story “The Story of an Hour”, revolves around a marriage with an unusual, pathetic ending. It is about a tale of a girl who thought that the boy is dead causing her a deep struggle within herself. Eventually, the girl died due to her overwhelming joy from her partner’s fake death. Suprisingly, Kate Chopin used many symbolic representation about how the story flows. Maybe for others this symbols may mean something different from my stand point, but for me these symbols made the story a spicier one. It confused me at the start, but after numerous appreciation of the text, “The Story of an Hour” goes like this.
The story contains multiple imagery that describes hidden identities. From the beginning, as paragraph 3 said, “When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.” This line tells us that Louise also felt a bit of lonliness in her heart opposing the conclusion of the doctors telling, “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.” From this we can conclude that the girl is avoiding herself in accepting that her husband is dead already. Maybe from the start she felt that sadness, but knowing the fact that she has a heart problem, she stepped out from the reality and tried an unusual way of celebrating her husband’s death. That time when she is still happy even though her husband is now at peace. The reality that has been provoked by Louise’s unccustomed activity.
As the story progresses, the true status of the couple has been revealed. In traditional consensus, marriage is about a “two-way” love system between a couple of the opposite sex. As stated in the Catholic marriage vows, “I, (name), take you, (name), to be my husband/wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.” Perhaps it is evident that marriage is not about the material thing the couple
The story contains multiple imagery that describes hidden identities. From the beginning, as paragraph 3 said, “When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.” This line tells us that Louise also felt a bit of lonliness in her heart opposing the conclusion of the doctors telling, “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.” From this we can conclude that the girl is avoiding herself in accepting that her husband is dead already. Maybe from the start she felt that sadness, but knowing the fact that she has a heart problem, she stepped out from the reality and tried an unusual way of celebrating her husband’s death. That time when she is still happy even though her husband is now at peace. The reality that has been provoked by Louise’s unccustomed activity.
As the story progresses, the true status of the couple has been revealed. In traditional consensus, marriage is about a “two-way” love system between a couple of the opposite sex. As stated in the Catholic marriage vows, “I, (name), take you, (name), to be my husband/wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.” Perhaps it is evident that marriage is not about the material thing the couple