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A 4 page paper which examines Kate Chopin’s short story “Story of an Hour,” arguing how this story illustrates how a good story must have more than a good plot. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAhour5.rtf
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a good plot is not all there is to a story. A plot can provide the foundation, or background, of a story and it is the characters and their development
that truly provide us with a story worth reading. In Kate Chopins short story "Story of an Hour" we have a very simple plot but it is the main character,
the woman, and the hour she spends alone that reveals the story itself. The story is not the plot, but the womans introspection that makes the story a powerful one.
Story of an Hour In this story the plot is very simple, although it is a plot that means nothing until we read through the entire story. In
this tale a woman is told that her husband has just been killed in an accident. She retreats upstairs for an hour and then comes down, only to have her
husband walk through the door alive. She immediately dies from heart failure. This is the plot. It is a relatively simple plot and one that could be seen in many
different ways. But, it is not the plot that really pulls the reader in for the beginning and end of the story are not what keep the reader interested. What
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the tale and the plot good. In the
very beginning of this story we understand that Mrs. Mallards husband is dead: "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to
her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin p. NA). There is no sense that the woman loves her husband in the way we would assume.
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