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A 3 page paper which analyzes elements of Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour. No additional sources cited.
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woman who suddenly begins to find her own identity away from her position as a wife, and presumably a mother. Even though it is a story that takes place in
Victorian times, times when a woman was traditionally only seen as a wife and a mother, it is a story of a woman who is discovering herself and seeing her
individuality. Chopins story is painful, exhilarating, honest, and filled with a powerful sense of individual freedom, all of which are still personal topics of importance for women. The following paper
examines the timelessness of this story. Chopins Story of an Hour In this story the main character is told that her husband is dead. She retreats to her
room and contemplates this reality. While many readers may see her as somewhat insensitive the truth is that she has never really had her own identity prior to this point
in her life. She is noted as having a heart condition and in reality the reader may well begin to see that it was only a sense of depression and
hopelessness that made her weak. With her new found freedom laying in front of her she becomes strong and excited. But then she finds that her husband is alive and
dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply resigned herself to a life
dictated by society. She is a wife and has never looked beyond that in terms of finding herself. Many women today still do that, marrying and simply falling into a
pattern that is accepted by society, never really realizing that they are living a life that offers them nothing personally. Society illustrates how happy people should be in marriage but
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