Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis Essay
Abraham Sanchez Quintana
Professor Armstrong
English 113F
October 26, 2013
Lack of Love Kate Chopin shows her great skills as a writer in her short story “The Story of an Hour”. She uses irony as her greatest tool to add great characteristic right at the end of her story. She has a great way to express the setting and scenery in great detail that reaches the readers mood. Kate Chopin’s husband’s death before her becoming a writer is somehow used by her to create a realistic character that is going through what she has gone thorough in real life. We can see through the eyes of a grieving widow, but with a bit of an odd response to the death of her husband. Kate begins the story with horrible news of an accident. A train wreck had occurred, and Mrs. Mallard’s husband …show more content…
“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death”(496), this was used to turn the entire story in the end, with the information that it gave about her heart. She is told the news of her husband’s death slowly as to not cause her to have a heart failure because of the shock from such heavy news. But in the end, her husband was actually alive. After her believing that she was free to live her life, after she grieved her husband’s death, he returns, with no idea that there was a train wreck. To help her from dying, the death of her husband was carefully handled, but she ended up dying from finding out that he was actually alive. Her heart could have caused her to die from grief of her husband’s death, but it happened from joy of her husband’s being well. Kate doesn’t give a detail about her character for no reason; she ends up using it once more only to add a great ending to her short story. This captures readers and probably changes opinions about it right at the end of her
Professor Armstrong
English 113F
October 26, 2013
Lack of Love Kate Chopin shows her great skills as a writer in her short story “The Story of an Hour”. She uses irony as her greatest tool to add great characteristic right at the end of her story. She has a great way to express the setting and scenery in great detail that reaches the readers mood. Kate Chopin’s husband’s death before her becoming a writer is somehow used by her to create a realistic character that is going through what she has gone thorough in real life. We can see through the eyes of a grieving widow, but with a bit of an odd response to the death of her husband. Kate begins the story with horrible news of an accident. A train wreck had occurred, and Mrs. Mallard’s husband …show more content…
“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death”(496), this was used to turn the entire story in the end, with the information that it gave about her heart. She is told the news of her husband’s death slowly as to not cause her to have a heart failure because of the shock from such heavy news. But in the end, her husband was actually alive. After her believing that she was free to live her life, after she grieved her husband’s death, he returns, with no idea that there was a train wreck. To help her from dying, the death of her husband was carefully handled, but she ended up dying from finding out that he was actually alive. Her heart could have caused her to die from grief of her husband’s death, but it happened from joy of her husband’s being well. Kate doesn’t give a detail about her character for no reason; she ends up using it once more only to add a great ending to her short story. This captures readers and probably changes opinions about it right at the end of her