Essay On The Value Of Communication In Kate Chopin's Cathedral

The value of good communication in relationships is very important. A story written by Kate Chopin known as, “The Story of an Hour” reveals a relationship between two people that can be interpreted unhealthy. The beauty of the story is that Chopin leaves out the details of their relationship and just shows the wife’s reaction to her husband dying. Chopin leaves you to make your own interpretation about there relationship. Another story written by Raymond Carver known as “Cathedral” takes a little different perspective on the value of communication. In this story we see a woman that seems to have a closed minded husband and he eventually opens up at the end of the story. In the story Cathedral the couples relationship together grows. These two stories, as much as they are different they are also similar in their own ways. Each story has it’s own unique way of showing the value of communication within a relationship. In “The Story of an Hour” The wife dies from the returning of her husband

When Mrs. Mallard finds her husband passes she was only sad for a short time. Part of the idea that her relationship was unhealthy because she begins chanting after a short time, “ Free! Body and soul free!” (477). She starts seeing opportunities that she could have without him. The story notes that, “Yet she had loved him –sometimes” (477). Mrs. Mallard seemed to be taking her husbands death to well. When it turns out her husband was not dead and he comes through the door she dies of “Heart Disease” (477). It can be assumed several things. She was really excited he was back or she had already looked so far beyond him when he came back she could not make herself live with him. Him dying was her way out and an easy way that she would not have to confront him herself. The connection between the two individuals was not a very strong one. A relationship that made her wishes he was