Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour Essay -- The Story of an Hour 2014

In the while in which this short story was written, marriage was viewed differently as plurality view it today. Chopin is probably expressing her view on marriage through the book of facts of Mrs. Mallard and her actions upon discovering that her husband had just past away. This was a time where cleaning woman were considered second hand citizens compared to men and where men may put one over flaccid their authority and influence on their wife, not really giving them a chance to have their own opinion. Where in Mrs. Mallards case may have caused her to bottle up her negative feelings of her husband. Chopin does not write much on how Mrs. Mallard felt during the marriage but she hinted that she was not very happy with it, she mentioned, And yet she had love him sometimes (Chopin 537). It seemed that they had a rocky relationship, if she had further loved him sometimes, and in a time where divorce was practically unheard of and considered an abomination, the only way out of an unstable marriage was through the death of a spouse. So when she had received the message of her husbands accident, she acted w...