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Disappointment in The Story of an Hour

 

   "The Story of an Hour" is a short story in which Kate Chopin, the author, presents

an often unheard of view of marriage. Published in the late eighteen hundreds, the

oppressive nature of marriage in "The Story of an Hour" may well be a reflection of,

though not exclusive to, that era. Mrs. Louise Mallard, Chopin's main character,

experiences the exhilaration of freedom rather than the desolation of loneliness after she

learns of her husband's death. Later, when Mrs. Mallard learns that her husband, Brently,

still lives, she know that all hope of freedom is gone. The crushing disappointment kills

Mrs. Mallard.

 

      Though Chopin relates Mrs. Mallard's story, she does not do so in first person.

Chopin reveals the story through a narrator's voice. The narrator is not simply an

observer, however. The narrator knows, for example, that Mrs. Mallard, for the most

part, did not love her husband (paragraph 15). It is obvious that the narrator knows

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