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Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is about a woman with heart troubles, was informed that her husband has been killed in a railroad accident and after she heared that news she became hysterically upset. She locks herself in a room, sits in a chair looking out the window where what she was seeing outside seemed to be trying to get into her or overwhelm her. She panicked at first, but then began to feel a deep peace with herself after she accepts the fact of her husband’s death. Her sister begs her to come out of the room because she’s worried about her, when she does they go to leave when her husband supposable he was dead came in the door. Turns out he was never dead in the first place, but then ironically after she saw him she dies of heart disease.
There are many things in this story that can be analyzed through the feminist point of view. For example, when Mrs. Mallard was first told of her husband’s death. The author makes a point to say “she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance.”(25-27) This could be saying or singling women out as people who do not know how to accept important issues or any very important responsibility. He story implies that perhaps men have an ability that they can handle such horrible news or that
Alnemri 2 important of an issue without making a big scene. The reason I am using this example is because that it says “women” in the sentence instead of just saying anyone they singled women out to any others hearing this same news. Now the way Mrs. Mallard herself handled the news of her husband’s death was dramatic , “she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment”(35-36) the word abandonment suggests that she needs a man in her ...

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...r’s waist, and together they descended the stairs” her doing that can be her trying wrapping these new-found happiness of her freedom around her sister another woman as if it is trying to encourage her to break free.
Then When her husband who was never really dead came inside, Mrs. Mallard died right there because when she saw her husband, all her freedom vanished right in front of her eyes as he walked in and now that she has seen the freedom that she could have had as free woman and now that she could never go back ever be happy again. “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of the joy that kills” this might means that when men had control over woman, it was like that it was a disease on the women’s heart. After she experienced the happiness of woman’s rights and freedom and the thought of being without that happiness kills her, literally.

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