The Death From The Emotions - 1200 Words

The Death from the Emotions In the short story The Story of an Hour written by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard, the main character, is told that her husband, Mr. Brently Mallard, is dead in a railroad disaster. This short story is interesting mentioning the inner happenings of Louise character within an hour when she hears the news from her husband’s death until seeing her husband, peaceful and healthy, appearing at the downstairs. Although the story is told quite simple within only one hour of time, readers can realize changes constantly in thought and feeling of the main character in step by step. The story represents a negative view of marriage in nineteenth century when men always keep the most important status of power and determination†¦show more content†¦Although her reaction is perhaps more violent than other women’s, it is an appropriate one. As many women, Louise is very shocked because of her husband’s death, and it seems difficult time for her to accept the truth. Mrs. Mal lard is described as a young woman: â€Å"She was young, with a fair, calm face† (Chopin, par. 8). From this detail, the author wants to express a big loss of the woman when she is too young to become a widow and suffers the terrible grief from her husband’s death. Mrs. Mallard knows that she should grieve for her husband Brently and worry for her own future. Actually, life of a woman without her husband, who always play an important role in the family, will be more difficult. The feeling of grief gradually increase when Mrs. Mallard locks herself in her room to face the truth that her husband supposedly died: She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams (Chopin, par. 7). Kate Chopin compares the sob between the main character and a child to show woman in the story has kept grief emotions long enough to release all them outside; it makes Louise comfortable to face her own fate. After this detail, it begins to have change in her emotion when she can sense happy and free feelings building in her mind. Locking herself in her room, Mrs. Mallard begins to