At first glance, one may believe this story is about a grieving widow; although that is the case, there was a slight twist. After Louise Mallard had learned about her husband’s death, she was feeling a handful of emotions that she didn’t know how to process. Throughout the story, we can see the different types of emotions Louise is feeling, from sadness to guilt and happiness. These emotions can be seen throughout the build of events which lead to the ironic ending of the story leaving Louise with another loss.
The title of the short story refers to the time elapsed between the moment at which the protagonist, Loise Mallard, hears that her husband, Brently Mallard, is dead, then discovers that he is alive after all. Featuring a female protagonist who feels liberation at the news of her husband’s death. “The Story of an Hour” was controversial by Amercian standards of the 1890s.
In a 2020 article, Cihan Yazgi provides a different perspective on why Chopin had to let Louise Mallard at the end and analysis her death as a tragic plot. Drawing upon the Aristotelian formula and supporting his reading with stylistic evidence from the text. Yaxgi argues that it is possible to understand the story’s plot in terms of classical tragic elements of anagnorisis, peripeteia, and catastrophe. He states that Chopmin’s reliance on these tragic elements in the structuring of her plot helps Chopin to attain sympathy for Mrs. Mallard and to have her readership reflect with a critical eye on gender politics; this might not have been possible without the tragic plot. Meanwhile, Yazgi uses textual evidence to emphasize Chopis’n stylistic mastery in creating a language that is “reveal in half concealing,” which makes these elements achieve their intended effects: The delaying of information creates suspense and anticipation that eventually makes Mrs. Mallard anagnorisis and catastrophe the more striking in such a short text.
Bert Bender, and English professor a was Bert Bender, an English professor at Arizona State University, offers a biographical reading of the text and argues that the writing of the 1890s was influenced by Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection. Chopin’s understanding of the meaning of love and courtship, in particular, was altered and became more pessimistic. This attitude finds its expression in The Story of an Hour when Mallard questions the meaning of love and, ultimately, it as meaningless Lawrence Betkove, a professor at the University of Michigan-Dearbomnotes that there has been critical agreement that the story is about female liberation from repressive marriage. However, contests this reading argues that there is a deeper level of irony in the story. The story, according to Berkove, depicts Mrs. Maffard as an immature egotist and ‘of her own -assertion. Berkave also acknowledges Louise’s love after her own self-assertion and how it is peculiar a married person would think like thisAlso Berkove discusses how Louise wanted live, but there was evidence in the text that she had sacrificed anything for her husband. He also challenges the notice that Chopin intended for the views of the story’s main character to coincide with those of the author using Wang, has criticized Betkove’s interpretation In her article.
‘Emotions in The of An Hour, Selina Jamil argues that Chopin portrays Mallard’s perception of her husband’s supposed death as fostered by emotions rather than by rationality; Jamil claims that up pointMallard’s life has been devoid of emotion to such an extent that she has even wondered if it is worth living. The repression of emotion may represent Mallard’s lunch and, who had up until that point ‘silenced will, newfound freedom is brought on by an influx of emotion, meaning, and value to life. Although Mallard feels fear when she hears of her husband’s death, the strength of the emotion is powerful, and Mattard actually feels joy since joy that ultimately Mallard, Mallard’s feelings kill her in the end. At the same, it shows the repression that Mr. faces. She relatives after her husband’s support that she, the free tree, shows her life would change and that she is now a person removed from the repressed faced before evidence is given in the story how she his and her newfound confidence ure enough this repression of herself that she dealt with has with the death of her husband her to be free additionally patriarchy for expressing that to the beauty of life marriage. Only after she is free from the bonds of patriarchy and the death of her husband. Able to feel a medley of emotions.
In a 2004 article, author Mark Cunningham explores the reason behind Mrs. Mallard’s death at the end of the story. Many critics argue that she died from seeing her husband alive with her heart disease. However, Cunningham argues that ‘the evidence of the story indicates that Louise dies not from grief at Bentley’s return, but from the emotional and spiritual strain that the news of his death occasions.’ AlthoughChopin never reveals the true reason why Mrs. Mallard dies at the end of the story; it can be inferred that due to Mrs. Mallard feeling freedom from hearing the news can show that the feeling can be overwhelming to someone who has heart disease.
In a 2013 article Jeremy Foote, a researcher at Purdue University, argues that of an Hour’ can be read as commentary and warning about technology, specifically the railroad and the telegraph. The railroad, claims, may be the cause of the distance between the MallardsIt allowed for work and home to be very distant from each other and eliminated opportunities for spouses to spend time togetherFoote argues that the reason that Louise Mallard wanted more autonomy was that she and her husband did not spend time together. The alone time that Louise had in the house made her less close to her husband and made her want her independence. The way the telegraph is used in the story can be viewed as a warning about a world in which information is moving too quickly. Instead of having enough time to think about and process the death of her husband, it is thrust upon her. Mallard, in its entirety, followed within minutes by the shock of seeing him alive. As the title suggests, this is a story about the importance of time. It may not have been the events that happened, but the speed at which they happened is so devastating to Mrs. Mallard.
While most readers infer Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour’ is about the awakening of feminine awareness and the struggle for freedom in man’s world, Chongyue offers a new analysis. They conclude that Mrs. Mallard is an ungrateful and unfaithful wife. Chopin provides a little background on both Mr. and Mrs. Mallard. However, there’s enough evidence to assume they live a comfortable life, for example -the story home. The ‘comfortable and roomy’ armchairs, one armchair facing the open window’ comes to the topic of the female awakening. Contributes to the main character’s awakening to a phenotnction by the name of Jouissance’ In. Point out how Brently Mallard loved their wife, but she didn’t the same Mallard was often away from home on business to provide for his wife, only loved him sometimes’ and ‘otten had not loved to hum Her confidence can be as a result of triumph feeling she won her freedom backLastlyMrs. Mallard died of that kill could attribute to the sudden change in emotion; however, it seems that her death was due to the fact that her newly found freedom and Jay were from her. Instead of a loving Mallard, she is seen as ungrateful to her husband Chongue and that such a woman cannot rely on death.
In an article written in 2004, Mark Cunningham argues that Louise Mallard’s death was not caused because of her excitement or her sadness about her husband’s passing. He argues that Louise Mallard dies after the adrenaline rush of her shock’ work off and that her death when her husband returns is more ironic than melodramatic. Discusses his with the new freedom Mrs. received. She has a place for her in a male-dominated society.’ and there is no society where she will have a place.
