"The Story of An Hour" Historical Role of Women. What is Kate Chopin saying about the role of women at this time in history?

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`The story of an hour ' historical role of women

Introduction

Kate Chopin is a well known writer who lived between the years 1851 and 1904 and was mainly focused on short stories .She is known to have written more that a hundred of them which deal with problems women face in a repressive society . These themes really made her stories really popular during that period in history and they still are (Cummings , par 14 .The `story of an hour ' is one of

the short stories by her and was written in the year 1894 on April 19 . Its first publication was entitled , `the dream of an hour ' on December 6 , 1894 . It was later reprinted in the year 1895 (Katechopin .org , par 3 . Later on , the story has been reprinted so many times in Literature anthologies under the title `the story of hour (Cummings , par 2 . This essay seeks to find out what Chopin says about the role of women at this time in history through the `Story of an hour

Context of the story

This story was published at a time when people were asking themselves so many questions on social and cultural issues in America . One of these questions centered on women and many wondered which roles were appropriate for women in the society . Charles Darwin 's theory of `the origin of species ' of 1892 sparked the controversy surrounding the women question and some saw it as supporting independence and assertion...