When Louise got the new of her husbands death she started crying at once in her sisters arms. But what her sister, Josephine did not know is that Louise was crying out of happiness that she was finally free of her mundane, mediocre life chained down by her husband. The whole story seemed to be based on irony, situational and dramatic. Using situational irony we finally knew Mr. Mallard wasn’t really dead. Another is that Louise
"There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself". She was so overwhelmed with happiness that when she found out her husband had never died she had literally died in an instant of “the joy that kills.” She so badly wanted to be free from her husband that she could not take in the fact that he was still alive so her reaction was death which is one way she will truly be free. The same ideas are explored in "The Yellow Wallpaper" where the narrator in the story is overwhelmed with feeling like a slave to their own husband and consumed by her own thoughts. She is trapped within her own mental processes constantly analyzing the "wallpaper" and connecting it with things in her life. In both of these stories each woman has a way to escape or try to make themselves feel "fulfilled"
Any sudden stress, rage, grief, excitement can lead to a sudden cardiac death (Lecomte, 1996). Mrs. Mallard’s character did not have a happy childhood either. Her soul had many scars that increased with the time and controlled life with her husband. When Josephine and Richard shared the news of Mrs. Mallard’s husband’s death, they kept Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition in mind. Mrs. Mallard had her sister and her husband’s friend Richard to share the grief with her; she chose to be alone in her room as stated by Chopin in this passage: “When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone.
We are left to see that the window is a representation of Louise’s life to come after the death of Mr. Mallard. Louise’s heart trouble is both a physical and symbolic disorder that represents her uncertainty within her marriage and her unhappiness with the lack of freedom in it. Her heart condition is one of the first things we learn about in the story. “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 husband’s death” (168). That is why Josephine became so worried
The story starts out right away describing Mrs. Mallard having a heart disease, and how the news of her husband's death couldnt be brought up to her in an easy manner. Once Mrs. Mallard was told the news about her husband from her sister Josephine, she immediately started to weep. "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with paralyzed inability to accept its significance." (Chopin, 1). This passage shows Mrs. Mallards guilt and little posession of faith mostly because she realized that she had taken her husband for granted.
In their marriage she lives for her husband, however that changes when she believes that he has passed: “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself” (ll. 13-14, p. 107). When Mrs. Mallard receives the news of her husband’s death, she immediately starts crying uncontrollably in her sister’s arms. She does not get paralyzed by grief, as she knows many other women in her situation would do, “She did not hear the story as many other women have heard with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance” (ll. 11-12, p. 106).
Leslie Knox Ms. Baldwin English 3/ Period 6 2 March 2013 The Story of an Hour Essay In the story, The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, there is a woman with a heart condition that receives bad news. She deals with thenews in a different way than most people would. At first she js sad, but then she realizes she is happy. At the end of the storythere is a major twist. The woman, Mrs. Mallard, is told by her sister Josephine and her husbands friend Richards, that her husband Brently Mallard has been killed in a railroad accodent at work.
It wasn’t until the second time I read the story that I realized Mrs. Mallard was relieved when she heard the news of her husband` s death. The actions and words Mrs. Mallard portrayed proved this point. The author leaves the reader to almost make a story of their own by leaving out details and allowing the reader to add their own. To prove this, in the beginning of the short story, the reader gets the impression that this woman is going to be extremely upset that her husband has died in a train accident. Her closest friends and family come to her to easily break the news of her husband` s recent death.
The condition is introduced at the opening of the story. It is said that “great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death,” (215) to keep the grief from affecting her heart. In the end of the story the doctors say Louise died of a heart disease and ironically they said she died from overwhelming joy. However, it seems that Louise actually died from losing the joy that she had just gained. It could also be thought of as a broken heart because of her new freedom being taken away from her.
It is only later on, however, when everyone finds out that the prophesy is true, her life becomes very miserable and it results in tragedy for herself and others. Though, Gertrude has no prophesies to help her, she too turns a blind eye to the truth that her new husband may have had something to do with her old husbands death. To protect her luxuries status as queen, she marries Claudius as soon as possible. “With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage” her husband remarks “In equal scale weighting delight and dole” (II.ii (12-13). The thing she is ignoring is that instead of being sad, Claudius is marrying her.