Cecala_2
Kanyakorn Cecala
Prof. Williams
ENG-
03 July 2020
Term Paper: The story of an hour
Kate Chopin, the author of the short story that represents her independent thinking of feminism during 19th century. Chopin was born on February 8, 1850, in St. Louis, Missouri. Chopin was raised by her widow mother who never remarried after Kate’s father died in 1885. Instead of Kate’s mother raised her daughter alone, she moved back to live with her relatives which all women in the house. Chopin was raised from women in the house. She had written over a hundred story and became known to American reading public in early 1890. the story of an hour is about a woman who had a serious heart problem and thought she lost her husband from a train accident. Chopin wrote this short story in 1894.
The story of an hour is a story that Chopin wrote about Louise as a housewife who has a heart condition, she has a difficult time handling a hard situation. Her sister Josephine always is aware of that. Louise’s sister received new that her husband had passed away in a train accident. Thus, they assumed that Louise’s husband died. After she heard the news from her sister, she became paralyzed and cried all at once, then she quickly went to her room alone. Her sister got worried that Louise will get sick from her loss. On the other hand, Louise grieved for her husband and started realized her marriage and her life in the past by looking at the window in to the sky. She thought in a different way, instead being sad and depressed, she realized her unimpressive moment of her husband that she was powerless and stuck with being a wife as a culture norm. Louise felt that she found freedom for herself that she did not have to live for anybody anymore and that she is now independent, and she could do whatever she wanted to do. That the reason why she said, “Free Free Free” (Chopin). In the story Chopin also said that Louise had loved her husband sometimes, but often had not. Louise imagines her life through all the seasons that she will live in her own. After that Louise opened the door to see her sister Josephine and walked down to the steps. All the sudden, her husband Brently Mallard came back through the door alive, Louise was shocked and died from heart failure. The doctor said: “of the joy that kills” (Chopin).
Reader will argue that the end of this short story is not right from the doctor diagnose that “of the joy that kills”. Obviously, the wife, Louise was not shocked because she was too glad that her husband came back alive. On the other hand, Louise thought that she will have her freedom finally and all the sudden that was ruined out of thin air. I’m not sure that Louise initially planned on her husband returning. I think mentally she was over being a wife and wanted to explore the world with no restrictions or anything weighing her down. It was difficult for a woman to have her own independence during this time, and it was frowned upon by most of society. I believe she had high hopes for her complete independence and the news of her husband shattered her emotionally. According to Diederich gave an example that “For instance, Mark Cunningham argues that Louise’s death occurs not because of Brentley’s return but rather because of Louise’s realization that her autonomy cannot last even if Brentley were dead, her freedom would be constricted by Brentley’s will and society, resulting in “a loss of any place for her in male-dominated society” (53). Thus, her death represents the futility of her freedom” (Diederich).
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Works Cited
MAYER, GARY H. “A Matter of Behavior: A Semantic Analysis of Five Kate Chopin Stories.” ETC: A Review of General Semantics, vol. 67, no. 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 94–100. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com.rcbc.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=53300776&site=ehost-live.
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