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    Kayla Silva Mrs. Barrish English IV 31 March 2010 Character Sketch Some people believe that marriage is bliss. However that is not the case. In “Story of an Hour‚” Mrs. Mallard I treated wrongly by her husband Brently Mallard. She is very tired of being hurt she wishes her life would end. When finally getting her life back together she wanting to live it long but instead it ends short still. Mrs. Mallard is very heart troubled‚ happy‚ and then shocked. Mrs. Mallard has been very heart troubled

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    Madelyn Martinez English Comp II 1302-1005 February 28‚ 2013 “The Story of an Hour” as a Feminist Text The narrator introduces Louise Mallard as a wife with some type of heart problem. Her sister Josephine and Richards take great care when telling her that her husband has died in a train accident. Despite the sad news she receives‚ she is unable to contain her feelings of liberation and is elated with thoughts of a long life free of her spouse. Unfortunately for Mrs. Mallard‚ her husband soon

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    Aristotle once wisely said‚ “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” However‚ having to provide for your own happiness is difficult to do‚ and hard to maintain. Kate Chopin’s short story‚ The Story of an Hour introduces a character that shows just that. When the protagonist‚ Mrs. Louise Mallard learns of her husband’s death‚ she is devastated at first‚ but then feels a strange sense of relief. She realizes that she can live the life that she wants for herself‚ and be who she wants to be. Knowing her aforementioned

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    Though there are a few different ways to approach Kate Chopin’s "The Story of an Hour"‚ I feel that the historical critical theory serves best. Chopin lived during a difficult time for women; they were oppressed by male superiority and greatly undervalued. When this information is taken into account‚ it appears as if her character Mrs. Mallard is also burdened with these issues. She longs to feel independence. Chopin describes Mrs. Mallard as "young‚ with a fair‚ calm face‚ whose lines [bespeak]

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    Free Body and Soul: Lacked Women ’s Freedom in Kate Chopin ’s "The Story of an Hour" "The Story of an Hour" was written by Kate Chopin‚ who was a famous feminist writer in the late 19th centry. Also‚ "The Story of an Hour" is one of the feminist masterwork in the world. In the short story‚ Louise was excited that she would no longer have to bend to her husband ’s will. She was briefly described as "young‚ with a fair‚ calm face‚ whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength" (49)

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    The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is about this girl names Mrs. Millard‚ she is married to this guy and she has a weak heart. Well she gets this news that her husband had died in a car accident and she is suppose to be upset. She goes upstairs to her room and stares out the window and looks up at the clouds and notices that she is suppose to be sad and depressed but she is sitting there thinking and realizes that she is not that upset. She starts to look at the good outcome of this and says the

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    Joy That Kills How would one react to finding out their husband has just died? In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”‚ wife Louise Mallard is told that her husband has been killed. At first Louise is shocked until she retires upstairs where she encounters many different emotions and even an epiphany. But at the end of the story the husband walks in the door . . . alive. The sudden shock of seeing her husband alive ends up killing her. Louise’s personality and actions leading up to‚ during

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    Analysis of Hemingway’s Narrative Technique as a Short- Story Writer For many years‚ the narrative technique of Hemingway has been under debate. Writers before him had already achieved works that bear the characteristics of the modern short story‚ and many of their works could stand today‚ with those of Hemingway and of writers like Faulkner‚ as representative short stories of modern times. What distinguishes Hemingway both from his predecessors and from his contemporaries‚ however‚ is the theory

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    The story is narrated in a first person point of view by a puppy who speaks about his mother. He only states his opinion on her at the very end. His mother is the center of his attention throughout the narration and he rarely says things such as " of course i said nothing " to address himself. We do not learn his name or if he believed his mother was in the wrong. He only defends her at the end of the passage showing a small spark of an opinion towards her. 2. The puppy who narrates the story is

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    Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble‚ great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death. I believe that someone that was diagnosed extensive heart trouble in the mid 1800’s would be easily be susceptible to heart attack‚ or death. Another main point in this sentence is the immediate introduction of the death of Mrs. Mallards husband‚ as it strives to enlighten the reader quickly of the correlation between her heart trouble and her

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