The Story of an Hour Plot Diagram
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
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In "The Story of an Hour", the main character, Mrs. Mallard, is a married woman with a heart condition. Her husband is away and news comes that he has perished in a horrific train accident. Her sister gently breaks the news to her, and silently, Mrs. Mallard rejoices. She assumes that she will be playing the mournful widow, but is she?
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The Story of an Hour Summary - The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
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- EXPOSITION
- RISING ACTION
- CLIMAX
- Free, free, free! Free, body and soul, free!
- FALLING ACTION
- I've returned home from my trip. Why does everyone seem so shocked?
- RESOLUTION
- Mrs. Mallard is sickly and suffers from a weak heart. Her sister, Josephine comforts her, concerned that the news she is about to hear will kill her.
- "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same."
- Josephine and Richards, a friend of Mr.Brently Mallard gently reveal that Mr. Mallard has been killed in a railroad disaster.
- Mrs. Mallord, though grieving, realizes that she is now free from a marriage in which she wasn't truly happy. So though she mourns the death of her husband, secretly she's elated.
- "And yet she had loved him - sometimes. Often she had not."
- After Mrs. Mallard comes to the conclusion that she is now free to live a happy life, she and Josephine walk down, just as Mr. Mallard, unharmed by the tragic accident, comes through the door.
- Mrs. Mallard collapses, dead. The Doctor said "that she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills." He thought she was so overjoyed to see him that she died. In reality, she realized her "freedom" was never to be, and that killed her.
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