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- "The Story of an Hour" depicts a woman, Mrs. Mallard, who is afflicted with a heart trouble and is being informed that husband has died. Due to this, the author states, "She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her. There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul."
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- Then, after she had wept, she felt a strange feeling that was taking over her body, she was not sad anymore. "She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself, a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body."Then, in the story, Chopin shows us why Mrs. Mallard felt that she was free and was relieved that her husband had died as she stated that , "There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending her sin that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination. "Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering." "Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long. Now, there was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory." These quotes serve as a reminder that women's desire for independence is natural yet constrained by societal norms
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- The open window symbolizes possibility and freedom, as Lois gases out at "the open square before her house," filled with new life and opportunity. The window becomes a gateway to Louise's dreams of independence, emphasizing her internal transformation.
- After she had gone through this roller-coaster of emotions, her husband had returned back home, as he turned out to have been far from the accident. When the doctors came, they said she had died of heart disease — of joy that kills. This irony and turn of events enhance the theme and serve as a reminder of the inequality and repression that women suffered from and still suffer from till this day.
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