Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis Essay
The Inside View of “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin The story I chose for this assignment is “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. This story grabs reader’s emotions from the start. The narrator takes the reader from mourning a death to a point of over enjoyment and back. To achieve this author uses a combination of literary elements to guide the reader from the plot to the theme. When one identifies the theme of a short story (fiction), one must consider several literary elements. While analyzing this story, the theme will be identified. Also, some of the symbols and tone will be identified along with their relevance to the theme. The theme of this story is something to the line of “The excitement of her new found freedom”.
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The narrator, being omniscient, relays the information without any bias comments at all. Yet, the narrator seems to hint some sympathy or compassion in the beginning paragraphs, this does however, help set the tone. The tone plays a major role in this story, it “paves the way” for the theme to be played out. It starts out by showing the concern that her sister and friend Richard have about both the shocking news of her husband’s death, and her heart problem. As said in Clugston, (2010). Then changes to happiness and joy once she goes to her room. She must have felt some guilt as she did try to suppress her joyous thoughts. The narrator did well in setting the tone and building suspense. The tone and symbols were both necessary to paint the proper images of the theme. While analyzing this story, the theme was identified. Also, some of the symbols and the tone identified along with their relevance to the theme of the story. Here we are able to see how a narrator, first, gets a reader’s attention or curiosity. Then shapes the theme through one or more of the literary elements along with the point of view. As seen, symbols are an effective tool, as is the tone of a story to get the reader to understand the underlying
The narrator, being omniscient, relays the information without any bias comments at all. Yet, the narrator seems to hint some sympathy or compassion in the beginning paragraphs, this does however, help set the tone. The tone plays a major role in this story, it “paves the way” for the theme to be played out. It starts out by showing the concern that her sister and friend Richard have about both the shocking news of her husband’s death, and her heart problem. As said in Clugston, (2010). Then changes to happiness and joy once she goes to her room. She must have felt some guilt as she did try to suppress her joyous thoughts. The narrator did well in setting the tone and building suspense. The tone and symbols were both necessary to paint the proper images of the theme. While analyzing this story, the theme was identified. Also, some of the symbols and the tone identified along with their relevance to the theme of the story. Here we are able to see how a narrator, first, gets a reader’s attention or curiosity. Then shapes the theme through one or more of the literary elements along with the point of view. As seen, symbols are an effective tool, as is the tone of a story to get the reader to understand the underlying