Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis

At one point in life everyone loses someone they love. Even if they don’t necessarily love them. If that person has been with them for almost all of their life then losing them would be losing a big part of their life. On the other side of things. There are situations where a person, especially in a marriage, is tired or feels restricted to certain things because of that person. No one ever wants to imagine or go through a loss and lose someone they cared about. Also, losing a person who has just been a person to someone their whole life changes the way someone would react to their death, In The story of an hour by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard is represented as the antagonist of the story. Louise feels devastated by her husband’s loss but as

Also it is hard to make out if Mr and Mrs. Mallard had a loving, true relationship. But despite all that we can prove that Louise did care about Mr. Mallard. For instance Chopin says, “When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one to follow her” (Chopin 169). This goes to show Louise did care about her husband and that now she has no one to calm her down and put her at ease. The fact that it says “storm of grief” shows how broken she felt with the news she got. I feel like now Ms. Mallard has to live with the repercussions of her actions and from now on it’ll be hard to live. Surprisingly enough there is a twist in the story where now Louise as she is in her room alone, she starts to see around her. She hears a haunting voice that tells her she is free and that now she has no one to restrict her from doing what she wants. While she is in the room Chopin says. “When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: ‘free, free, free!’ The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body” (Chopin 169). This

But later as things start to unveil it can be shown that Louise is actually glad her husband passed away as cruel as that sounds. Josephine is outside of the door kneeling and begging Louise to open the door and urges her stop before she gets sick. Louise finally comes out. Josephine holds on to her and they both go downstairs where Richards is waiting for them. At this point Louise is already convinced that she will spend the rest of her life alone and free from restrictions. No one else to depend on. When they get downstairs suddenly the front door opens. Chopin says, “Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom. Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little traveled-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one” (Chopin 170). This a major plot twist for every character. Right when they thought he was gone he comes up as alive not even knowing anything about the train accident. Everyone is shocked. This is where the irony comes in. Louise Mallard dies because he sees that her husband that after all was alive. Chopin says, “He stood amazed at Josephine’s piercing cry; at Richard’s quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. But Richards was too late. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of joy that kills” (Chopin