Mrs. Mallard is a woman ,who has just received the news that her husband has been killed in a railroad disaster. She is overwhelmed with grief when she learns the news. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard sister, Josephine, is given the duty of telling Mrs. Mallard of her husband’s death. Most women would have been saddened by the passing of their spouse, but Mrs. Mallard saw the experience as an opportunity of liberation of marriage. Mrs. Mallard “did not hear the story as many
In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" we see her capacity to contain a long trail of progress in her character's state of mind. Mrs. Mallard is the main character in the short story that had lost her husband Mr. Mallard, and as the story goes on we perceive how she goes through various emotions about the matter. Mrs. Mallard may begin off as a fearful wife that has a troubled heart, however through the passing of her husband sorrow transforms into liberation and flexibility, and along these lines
In this essay, I will compare character development, and contrast the plots in “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. I will examine the similarities of the protagonists on their pursuit to physical and emotional freedom, and the setting of which each story takes place. For example, Mrs. Mallard feels restrained in her marriage, but senses freedom in her brief becoming of a widow, and the narrator in the yellow wallpaper feels trapped in a mansion where she is forced to recover, but feels
The lives of women in the antebellum society of late nineteenth century America were characterized by oppression and shaded by an aura of death. According to Barbara Welter in her essay “The Cult of True Womanhood,” the way in which a woman “judged herself and was judged by her husband, her neighbors, and society, could be divided into four cardinal virtues—piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity.” Defiance of these virtues would result in societal ostracization, being deemed “unsexed.” Amidst
Both of the stories “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman present strikingly similar social plight related to women in the contemporary patriarchal society. These stories caused a sensation in the public as they were published in 19th century when women were confined to domestic roles and any discussion about female’s perspective on social issues was widely unacceptable. Furthermore, women were dependent on men for their needs in life. They were