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STORY OF AN HOUR
The story of an hour is a story that is set in only one hour and very
many things happen within that one hour. In this story many themes are
mentioned but in this essay we highlight one of the important theme
which is freedom, in the beginning of the story we are introduce to
Mrs. Mallard who has been told that her husband has died in a horrible
train wreck.Mrs Mallard reacts to this news like any other wife would
and we see her excusing herself and rushes off to her bedroom to be
away from the people who had come to see her and as we see her as a
different person when she is in the room. She in some sense is happy
and also upset that her husband is dead but on the other hand we come
to see the theme of freedom since she now have the freedom that she
never had before.
while in her room the reader is able to see Mrs. Mallard coming out
of her shell and behind the close doors she is able to express what
she is really feeling and she knew she could not express her new
found feeling in front of her friends and family and in some sense she
knew her place in the society and even though her husband is dead she
still supposed to keep that stature of a women in that time period. She
has now been reborn and free, free we can see the repeat of words and
it’s from the shadows of her husband and as winter dies and spring has
been born also also in her life the winter being her husband has now
died and spring being her new found freedom has been born. We can also
see symbolism in this story where the the smell of rain is in the air
has also been used to represent a form of rebirth and Mrs. Mallard in
some sense she has been cleansed and she is free to live her life the
way that she pleased without having to answer to anyone not even her
husband.
she changes her name from what she was known from to her name
louises.Through louise’s self-confident there is a symbolism of
freedom whereby she see the death ,of her husband as a metaphor for
the course of her life and she come to realize that by not asserting
her own will she has allowed her own subjugation to take place
nonetheless having now experience this revelation Louise’s is able to
take pleasure and pride in declaring her personal independence. She is
also open which is also an irony since she locks herself in her
bedroom and through the open window she is able to look out onto the
open square that harbors all manner of symbols of a new life this
openness then is really itself a symbol of the boundless possibilities
Louise can experience with her new found independence. The blue sky is
symbolic to her new coming personal prospects of her new self-affirmed
individual, it is also evident in Louise’s weak heart and sensitive to
tolerate heavy situations and this is a symbol for the lack of love symbolism gives universality to the characters and the themes of a piece of literature and evokes interest in readers as they find an opportunity to get an insight of the writer’s mind on how he views the world and how he thinks of common objects and actions, having broader implications’’. N V Brodskai︠a︡(49)
in her life and when the heart is empty it eventualy dies.
imagery is used to in the story for we the readers to understand the
extent to which louises ,want to change her life and begins to
imagine herself as a free woman and in her eyes was a feverish
triumph and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of
victory. It’s too sad as the story ends we see that she collapses and
dies after she realizes that her husband was not dead and her heart
was broken knowing that her freedom had now been taken away from her
in a matter of an hour. “Imagery is particularly interesting and relevant and illustrates one way in which imagery can serve abstract functions” So-wŏl Kim; David R McCann(148)
Her death was misunderstood after the doctor said the heart suffered
from the joy that kills, the family thought she died from the shock of
joy after seeing her husband alive but she realizes that now she was not
going to be free and would have to continue more pain by spending the
rest of her life with him but for me there is a second thought for this
death and it be the shock and disappointment rather than the joy the
doctor diagnosed.
In conclusion, this story proves that women’s liberation is an
extremely important issue and the means by which these women gained
their freedom is remarkable. The tragic ending of “The story of an
hour “highlights the fact that only through her husband’s death and
through the death of he marriage, she can be free but instead at the
end the only way she can be free is through her death.

CITATIONS:

Brodskai︠a︡, N V. Symbolism. New York: : Parkstone International,, 2012.
Kim, So-wŏl and David R McCann. Azaleas : a book of poems. New York: Columbia University Press,, 2007.