The story of an hour

Kate Chopin is probably one of the best well known children short story writers of the 19^th century. Chopin text “The story of an Hour” is an incredible short story that is packed with much information about women rights, the repression of women and foreshadowing. "The Story of an Hour" was published in the United States in 1849 during the time of the civil war and the gold rush. Most Americans women at the time were also fighting for rights just like African Americans and other of the time.

Kate Chopin works defines the time in which she was apart of. The text "The Story of an Hour", unveils how women of the time were mistreated and “their will was easily bended”, by male desires. Chopin had experienced a lot of this during her life time and wanted to give the world a better perspective of what was really going on in the household and women thoughts. Mainly the mistreatment that men were inflicting on women and the superiority men were giving at birth. During her time however she was not the most popular female author.

"The Story of an Hour" is one of Chopin many shot stories."The Story of an Hour" is about a girl who finds out that her husband has died in a train accident. Upon finding this information out she is stricken with sadness to the point she cries. Yet, during this crying process she feels joy because she feels free from the bondage of her husband. She is in utter happiness and can not understand why should is happy at the fact her husband will not be around.

Then she realizes that the reason she is happy is because she will have her own independence. This is where the reader has to unfold what is going on in the text this is a cry out for women independence in a male dominated society. Plus during this time women still did not have the right to vote. Chopin unfolds this so delicately because she depicts this by the women happiness in the story. The character Mrs. Mallard is proud of her independence, and she locks herself in a room. At first she does not come out of the room but when she is ready to come out her husband walks through the front door and she has a hear attack and dies.

A very conscience reader however would have picked up that she was going to have some type of heart condition due to the fact that in the beginning of the story it said “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble” (Chopin) This gives perfect foreshadowing to the fact that by the end of the story Mrs. Mallard has a hear attack. This is a perfect set up for what later happens in the story yet this untimely death is odd.