Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis Essay

The Story of an Hour “The Story of an Hour” (1894) by Kate Chopin (1851-1904), in my observation it is a story about proper behavior a woman must have, the lack of freedom, and the irony in life. The story is about a woman with a heart illness by the name of Louis Mallard. Louis is a very independent and smart woman who knows the “proper way” woman should act in society, but the repression of her wants, her needs, her thoughts have cause her feelings deep inside to act like an active volcano causing her heart problems.
When her sister, and the husband’s best friend announce that Brently her husband, has passed away in a tragic train wreck. Louis does a scene, rather than standing paralyzed and analyzing the meaning of the news, she cries dramatically and run’s to her sister’s arms, for this is the proper behavior Louis has learn she should have. Louis knew she should cry and grief her husband death, and fear what the future will bring or become of her, because she is a woman who lives up to society standards and her husband has taken care of her, but instead she feels tremendous joy of her new “freedom and independence”. Quote “She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her.” (496)
What I find really

It was obvious she had never loved her husband, then randomly she questions the topic of love, and happily realizes that, she doesn’t love him, this sets her free. “And yet she had loved him – sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!” (496). Another thing is that throughout the story she is called by Mrs. and when she releases herself of the chains, she is referred to as