The Story of an Hour
In "The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin shows us how unjust life can be. While one moment we think that life can not get any better, minutes go by as we are reassured that life is in fact not all it is cracked up to be. Chopin cleverly twists the events of the story to please any pessimist. Louise Mallard tastes happiness, but never truly gets a chance to digest it.
At the very beginning of the story, we learn that Louise has a heart condition. However, the choice of words is an indication that there might be some other meaning involved—"heart trouble" (32). Although the specifics of her trouble are not given, we are to assume that she will not do well in stressful situations. "Great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death" (32). As her sister Josephine gently delivers the bad news to her, Louise's reaction is different from the norm. "She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (33).......
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