Body and soul free” (169-170). Louise’s celebration of her husband’s death ends when she leaves her bedroom to be with her sister again. Suddenly they hear someone turning a key in the front door and they turn to see Brently Mallard, Louise’s husband. Louise was so shocked of her husband’s arrival that she, having prior heart trouble, has a heart attack brought on by “joy that kills”, or so the doctors said (170). Chopin uses quite a bit of figurative language in her story; two of the best examples are Louise’s heart trouble and the open window in her bedroom.
Gwen Hardwood The emotive qualities of Gwen Harwood’s poetry resonate with her readers. She uses her own memories to illustrate love for her family, her loss of innocence and the swiftness of time passing. She demonstrates this in her poems Father and Child, The Violets and At Mornington. The poem The Violets opens with the line “It is dusk and cold,” the time of day symbolising that this persona has reached old age and is metaphorically drawing closer to nightfall or the end of her days. Death is made apparent with the negative adjective “cold.” The flowers she is picking at the beginning of this poem are clearly what stimulate her memory of childhood as they are referenced later in the poem.
Both marriages are restricting, and challenge the protagonists’ concept of self and individuality. In “The Story of an Hour”, Louise Mallard gets the news of her husband’s death from her sister and her husband’s friend. She quickly retreats to the privacy of her own room which her companions believe is to grieve in solitude. In actuality, she shows the reader that she is finally confronting the wasted days of her life, and through that realizes that she has been given a second chance. She reflects on her marriage and we find that, although it was a good one, her husband never knew how unhappy his wife was.
As his wife often used the vacuum cleaner for housework before she died, the appliance reminds the old man of his late wife. The old man connects the vacuum cleaner to the memories of his wife as a remembrance. The poet used multiple poetic devices and figurative speeches to create an atmosphere of sadness, loneliness and
Emotions and Irony in “The Story of an Hour” Cynthia Bynum ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Lyndsey Lefebvre November 4, 2013 Emotions and Irony in “The Story of an Hour” This essay will explore the short story written by Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” (1894), discussing the theme and two key literary elements that support this theme. By the end of this essay, the two elements discussed with end with how they affect the narrative theme. The emotions and irony in “The Story of an Hour” surround the theme of this short story. The tumultuous emotions of Mrs. Mallard with her weak heart and it breaking with the news of the death of her husband along with the elation of freedom are throughout the whole story. Thus, there is irony of her emotions at the realization of her freedom then the discovery of her husband being alive followed by her own death.
Amy Giarrusso Professor Boumarate ENC 1102 January 29,2012 Response to “The Story of an Hour” “The Story of an Hour,” is a short story written about a woman who thinks she lost her husband in a railroad disaster, and later finds out that he is alive and was not in the accident. Throughout the story the narrator uses great visual aids to explain the setting of the story. While reading the story, I was able to picture myself at the home of Mrs. Mallard, mourning the death of Mr. Mallard. In paragraph ten, when the narrator explains how Mrs. Mallard falls to the ground, I became slightly confused. 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.
Answer: “The Story of an Hour” and “After Twenty Year” Literary Analysis and Composition 2 The suspense of “The Story of an Hour” is when her sister tells her in broken up sentences that her husband had passed away in a train excited. Knowing that her husband had passed away, she had felt freedom. Usually when someone's husband or love one had passed away the feel grief or pain, but for her she had felt free from her husband. The irony in the story is when she thinks that her husband had pass way and graceful to have her freedom back, only to find out 60 minutes later that her husband was still alive, taking away the freedom she had felt. I believe that is why the story is called “The Story of an Hour” the story is telling us, what had happened during the hour and what happen happened after the hour she finds out that he was a alive.
The husband clutched the bird, and slain it cruelly in front of his wife. The woman was despairing and quickly decided to send the dead bird to caution her beloved. At the end of the story, her lover sadly accepted the truth and preserved the nightingale in a dainty casket forever. As we can see, the nightingale symbolizes various things in this story. First of all, the nightingale can be considered sincerity between the lady and her beloved.
During her illness Granny Weatherall also sat and thought how much of an embarrassment it would be for anyone to find the letters she had written to both her ex lovers George and John. In the end father Connolly arrives to administer the final rites and she passes away. The story is written in a first person point of view and the stories plot primarily focuses on what happened to Granny Weatherall. For my prose to prose I will tell the story in a third person point of view. I will adapt the character of Cornelia, which is Granny Weatherall’s daughter.
From these things, I think that the woman's disease results from a psychological cause. Maybe, I think that the chief cause is her husband because she feels joy when she was heard that he was dead. Chopin also uses setting to contrast the news of her husband's death or her longing for freedom. In the text, "the open window and the open square(1,3)" repeat again and again throughout the story. In addition, "the tops of trees, the new spring life, the delicious breath of rain, the notes of distant song and countless sparrows" don't get along with the woman's present situation.