The Story Of An Hour Essay
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The story of An Hour
Kate Chopin (1894)
Ms. Mallard’s body expressions and how she felt after knowing about the death of B. Mallard
After reading this story, I remained with a clear senseof how the author uses Ms. Mallard’s body description, to make us figure out how she felt after hearing the news of her husband’s death. I’m going to move along the different paragraphs in the story,taking the ideas that made me choose this interpretation.
As I was saying, Kate Chopin uses all along the story the description of Ms. Mallard’s body and with this she shows us on the one hand,how the protagonist felt about what had happened, and on the other hand, those descriptions to make us go trough the many emotions the protagonist experienced along the story.
It can be noticedthat, in the first paragraph the author talks about Ms. Mallard’s illness. She suffers a heart problem but, was her heart what was really sick? Or maybe can we think that Ms. Mallard was brokenhearted because she didn’t feel happy enough?
Moreover, in the next five paragraphs the description goes into Ms. Mallard’s sensations. Every thing she sees, hears, touches and smells after receivingthe news gave her happy and hopeful feelings. For example the narrator states “She did not hear the story as many women had heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance...”Also the way in which Ms. Mallard cried makes me think about innocence, perhaps about how innocent she was about life, because she got married too young and with this she didn’t get to know theworld.
Apart from this the author lets us know Ms. Mallard was young and beautiful. And she was in a moment of indecision; some kind of disturbance because she didn’t know herself without herhusband and without being a wife any more. She was scared.
Besides Ms. Mallard was in a moment of loneliness; there was her sister that was very afraid of her, because she fears Ms. Mallard gets...
Kate Chopin (1894)
Ms. Mallard’s body expressions and how she felt after knowing about the death of B. Mallard
After reading this story, I remained with a clear senseof how the author uses Ms. Mallard’s body description, to make us figure out how she felt after hearing the news of her husband’s death. I’m going to move along the different paragraphs in the story,taking the ideas that made me choose this interpretation.
As I was saying, Kate Chopin uses all along the story the description of Ms. Mallard’s body and with this she shows us on the one hand,how the protagonist felt about what had happened, and on the other hand, those descriptions to make us go trough the many emotions the protagonist experienced along the story.
It can be noticedthat, in the first paragraph the author talks about Ms. Mallard’s illness. She suffers a heart problem but, was her heart what was really sick? Or maybe can we think that Ms. Mallard was brokenhearted because she didn’t feel happy enough?
Moreover, in the next five paragraphs the description goes into Ms. Mallard’s sensations. Every thing she sees, hears, touches and smells after receivingthe news gave her happy and hopeful feelings. For example the narrator states “She did not hear the story as many women had heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance...”Also the way in which Ms. Mallard cried makes me think about innocence, perhaps about how innocent she was about life, because she got married too young and with this she didn’t get to know theworld.
Apart from this the author lets us know Ms. Mallard was young and beautiful. And she was in a moment of indecision; some kind of disturbance because she didn’t know herself without herhusband and without being a wife any more. She was scared.
Besides Ms. Mallard was in a moment of loneliness; there was her sister that was very afraid of her, because she fears Ms. Mallard gets...
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