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This 3-page paper discusses conflicts experienced by the female protagonist in Kate Chopin's short story, "The Story of an Hour." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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death of her husband, Brently Mallard. "Great care was taken to break the news to her as gently as possible," Chopin writes, because Louise Mallard "was afflicted with a heart
trouble." Yet in the hour during which Louise comes to grips with her husbands death, she moves from "a physical exhaustion that
haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul" to a slowly dawning happiness that she was freed from her husbands shackles - and though her husband was kind,
shackles are shackles. During that hour between learning of Brantleys death and the time when her supposedly dead husband comes walking through the door, Louises emotions run the gamut, from
extreme grief to extreme happiness. The emotions of grief from the loss of a loved one consistently battle with the ones of happiness at her own freedom and ultimately, happiness
and freedom reign supreme . . . at least until her husband walks through the door. Chopins phrase, "She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long; it was
only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long" explains the entire scenario. The day before, life would be long with an unimaginable grief. But today,
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of
a conflict, given when the story was written. During the late 19th century, there were few "independent" women; widows were to be pitied and were to seek remarried as quickly
as possible. Women lived for their husbands, not for themselves. Jamil (2009, in her study of the story, points out, and quite rightly, that "until her moment of illumination, Mrs.
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