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A 7 page paper which illustrates how the primary character in Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” is the story of a woman finding her identity. No additional sources cited.
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alone contemplating the apparent death of her husband. Written around the turn of the 20th century it is a story that illustrates something of the conditions of women in society,
and a story that clearly illustrates the development of one womans identity as she sees freedom in her future. The following paper examines this perspective in Chopins story.
Identity: "The Story of an Hour" Mrs. Mallard is a relatively young woman who has just been given the news that her husband is dead. The reader is told, in
the beginning, that she is told of the death of her husband very delicately because of her heart condition. She immediately retreats to her room to contemplate the reality, to
feel sorrow and to think: "She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her
room alone" (Chopin). There is an understanding that she does not know what to think about the reality of the death of her husband as she sits silently in
her room. She indicates that she experiences a sob now and then but there is clearly not the painful anguish one would expect of ones spouse had just died. As
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance
of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought" (Chopin). This is the first real indication that this particular woman is in the process of waiting for a
sense of her identity. Up until now she has always belonged to someone it seems. But now she sits and waits for something. "There was something coming to her and
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