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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin explores the sense of liberation for social forces that holds the character down and focuses on the feminine gender 's side of such struggle . Caged in a patriarchal society , women have been rightfully fighting for a life worth living . Born in such a society , women are often aware of their right to happiness . In this story , it takes an accident , particularly her husband 's death , for Mrs Mallard to realize her self-worth . Mrs . Mallard symbolizes women 's

br situation with respect to her role in society . Her husband represents the patriarchal mindset of culture and society and it is in a sense ironic , that Mrs . Mallard 's sense of awakening , her birth ' was made possible by the death of her husband . In the same way , that her new-found freedom is cut short by her demise

are known to apply aspects of their life into their writings and works . Some literary critics may view such process as insignificant citing that any analysis of such works in literature must concentrate mainly on the work body rather than any external consideration outside the work . The mention of Mrs . Mallard 's health condition at the very onset of the short story paves the way for the consistency of the story 's ending . The simplicity of the setting indicates less the material sense of the story . For everything is much a personal sensing and contradiction of the main protagonist . In fact this particular part in the story is significant . She writes , She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life ' Sensory images flood her being and all of a sudden the vision of the window means a lot to her . These nostalgic sensory images are an onset of Mrs . Mallard 's new sense of liberation . The vision through the open windows means a fresh perspective into her life

The husband may have treated her wife fairly as dictated by social norms of the time . Mrs . Mallard utterance of those words was not an implication of an unhealthy and brutal marriage but was more a declaration of Mrs . Mallard new found sense of independence , a sort of unbinding from the social chains of familial duty . The closing of the door and the opening of the window was very much symbolic to Mrs Mallard 's closing of one aspect of her life , her marriage , and an advent of life of new possibilities . In a sense , it was a certain kind of freedom from a socially-imposed prison ' As she imagines life without her husband , she embraces visions of the future . She realizes that whether or not she had loved him was less important than "this possession of self-assertion " she now feels . Marriage for women at those times was more of a one-sided arrangement in favor for the male species Although one might argue that , at present , this is...