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Essay / dasdsad - 870
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is about a woman with heart problems, who was informed that her husband had been killed in a railway accident and after hearing this news, she became hysterically upset. She locks herself in a room, sits on a chair and looks out the window where what she saw outside seemed to want to enter or overwhelm her. She panicked at first, but then began to feel a deep peace with herself after accepting her husband's death. Her sister begs her to leave the room because she is worried about her, when she does they leave as her husband, probably dead, walked in the door. It turns out he never died, but ironically, after seeing him, she dies of heart disease. There are many things in this story that can be analyzed from a feminist perspective. For example, when Mrs. Mallard was first informed of her husband's death. The author makes a point of saying “she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same thing, with a paralyzed inability to accept its meaning. »(25-27) This could be saying or referring to women as people who don't. know how to accept important questions or any very important responsibility. His story implies that perhaps men have the ability to handle such horrible news or an important issue without making a big scene. The reason I use this example is because it says "women" in the sentence instead of just saying whoever chose women to everyone who hears the same news. Now the way Mrs. Mallard herself dealt with the news of her husband's death was dramatic, "she cried immediately, with sudden and wild abandon" (35-36), the word abandon suggests that she need a man inside her..... .middle of paper ......r waist, and together they went down the stairs » what she's doing is maybe she's trying to 'wrapping this new happiness of his freedom around his sister another woman as if it was trying to encourage him to do it. break free.Then when her husband who was never really dead came inside, Mrs. Mallard died on the spot because when she saw her husband all her freedom disappeared before her eyes as he walked in and now that she saw the freedom that she could have had a free woman and now that she could never go back and be happy again. “When the doctors came, they said she had died of heart disease, from the joy that kills.” This could mean that when men had control over women, it was as if it was a disease of the woman's heart. After having known the happiness of women's rights and freedom and the idea of finding herself without this happiness kills her, literally..