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`The story of an Hour`by kate chopin

Chopin 's The Story of an Hour

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She was drinking in the very elixir of life ' and for the first time Louise truly live , breathed , and existed in a society dominated by men and in a her own world controlled by her husband . Louise Mallard is the central character to Kate Chopin 's short story The Story of an Hour and is offered to the reader as a reflection of the role of women in the late 18th century . In the 1870s

its contributors included Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , Louisa May Alcott , Edward Eggleston , Samuel Woodworth Cozzens , and , in later years , Rose Terry Cooke , Harriet Beecher Stowe Mary Wilkins Freeman , Kate Chopin , Celia Thaxter , Theodore Roosevelt and Hamlin Garland (Harris 164 . Much of Kate Chopin 's work , like The Story of an Hour , explores gender related issues including marriage divorce , and female sexuality (Chopin i

It is important to remember that Kate Chopin wrote in the wake of the transcendental movement in America . Literature was moving away from the deep thinkers like Thoreau and Emerson toward something more exciting and real . Realism in the early 1900s was about public interest and entertainment . Literature during this time told tales of hardships and successes in the frontier (Harris 6 . Kate Chopin had a different approach to realism . Instead of exploring the unfamiliar external landscape of the great American west she examined the individual internal unknown . Writing about female discourse , addressing female roles in a male society , and offering again and again the female perspective on marriage , was not an easy task . Kate Chopin did it well with gracious and eloquent writing . Chopin stories -- "The Story of an Hour "The Storm " -- are now solidly in the American literary canon The Awakening was the book that introduced most readers to Kate Chopin in the 1960s and 1970s . When it was bruited about (wrongly ) that Chopin 's novel had been banned for immorality in 1899 , young rebels raced to read it (Toth xx

The Story of an Hour ' is a neatly packaged product of her feminist investigation . Through humor , wit , and skillfully used literary elements Chopin breathes life into the story of a woman completely controlled by her husband who experiences momentary freedom by sheer luck of a train accident . Chopin uses several symbols to evoke the feeling of rebirth , renewal , and autonomy . Just after Louise is told about the death of her husband , she enters her bedroom and finds the open window ' Through it she can see new spring life ' on the street below , and realizes that now she too can be part of that life , on her own terms . The open window symbolizes her clear passage to exist fully in the world without her husband standing in her way . Louise hears and sees the countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves Birds are a traditional icon of freedom (Woodlief . Chopin specific word choice , in the sentences following Louise briefly mourning her husband include - monstrous...

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