Trifles And Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis
As of today, women have many rights and tend to have longer happier marriages. Even so this wasn't always the case. Women were once not able to do something as simple as voting. They were given positions of lesser status in their personal, and professional lives. So from that oppression rose two works of literature which are Trifles (written by Susan Glaspell) and The Story of an Hour (written by Kate Chopin). I chose to compare The Story of an Hour with Trifles because The Story of an Hour had an interesting twist and I could see that deep, intricate thought was put into it. This research paper will examine the similarities and the differences between these two bodies of work. Since both are feminist works of literature, spotting similarities
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The events in the story very quickly with Chopin not slowing down at all. You reach the climax pretty quickly. In the beginning of the story, they show Richards in a hurry to tell Mrs. Mallard the news. In line three it's said she started crying at once. She went from 0-100 real quick. Mrs. Mallard spends less than an hour processing the new of the death of her husband. While doing so she notes that the trees shake with “new spring life” (Chopin, 1894) and this shows the life outside (time) isn’t going to stop for her just because her husband died. Since such little time is spent pondering the news, it doesn’t take long for her to start thinking about what life will be like now that he is gone. Although just as quickly as she gets excited, she finds out that her husband is alive and well. Another to explore is the theme of fatality. Learning of someone’s death is powerful and can be lethal. Learning someone hasn’t died can have the same effect. An example can be found in Mrs. Mallard. From the beginning of the story, the reader is told about her serious heart condition, almost as if Chopin is foreshadowing her death. She was excited after realizing what her husband’s death meant for her future but died when she found out he was alive. Truly
The events in the story very quickly with Chopin not slowing down at all. You reach the climax pretty quickly. In the beginning of the story, they show Richards in a hurry to tell Mrs. Mallard the news. In line three it's said she started crying at once. She went from 0-100 real quick. Mrs. Mallard spends less than an hour processing the new of the death of her husband. While doing so she notes that the trees shake with “new spring life” (Chopin, 1894) and this shows the life outside (time) isn’t going to stop for her just because her husband died. Since such little time is spent pondering the news, it doesn’t take long for her to start thinking about what life will be like now that he is gone. Although just as quickly as she gets excited, she finds out that her husband is alive and well. Another to explore is the theme of fatality. Learning of someone’s death is powerful and can be lethal. Learning someone hasn’t died can have the same effect. An example can be found in Mrs. Mallard. From the beginning of the story, the reader is told about her serious heart condition, almost as if Chopin is foreshadowing her death. She was excited after realizing what her husband’s death meant for her future but died when she found out he was alive. Truly