In this short story, “A Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin uses irony and symbolism in order to describe Mrs. Mallard’s state of being for an hour in her life. We learn of Mrs. Mallard, a woman who cried out for freedom and independency from a marriage that she did not have the desire to no longer be in. In a marriage, one can lose their identity, especially in the times of Mrs. Mallard where women did not have a voice.
The setting of this story justifies why Mrs. Mallard’s feels the way that she does. One would assume that the thought of losing a husband or wife would have been tragic, however for Mrs. Mallard it was liberating. The story was set in the late 1800’s in which women’s reason for existence was to solely take care of their home, husband, and children. Kate Chopin was raised by her mother and grandmother since her father died when she was four years old. I thought that since she did not have a father in the home that her stories would reflect the opposite of......
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