short essay

THE STORY OF AN HOUR

What prominently and greatly played in The Story of an Hour ' are the elements of plot , story , structure and the setting

Plot , Story and Structure -

As the sequence of the seemingly simple event within that hour , the intensity of build up is so strong . Surprisingly though , the structure of the story makes the reader already conclusive about what the main character , Louise Mallard is undergoing : in painful mourning

The highlight of such conclusion began when she rushed to the solitude and silence of her bedroom

. She begged to be left alone as she closed the door . She merely sat on that chair overlooking the open square in front of their house

Everything she felt all through out that one hour in that bedroom was so vividly narrated and expressed . It was likewise clear that the plot story and sequence is all about her grief that is so palpable . And lo and behold , the mystique of the freedom she calls to be finally hers was the one that thickened the plot

All of a sudden the reader can feel the race of a heartbeat with the curiosity as to what the freedom is all about . Then the big hope seeps through the reader that as one rushes to read the very short story that finally the so-called freedom will be finally told

Amazingly and amusingly indeed , just that one conclusive sentence that illustrated how she just died when eventually the presumably dead Mr Brently Mallard - who...