“The Story of An hour”
In the late 19th century, women were still succumbed to the hierarchy of the white man. He was ideal and expected to lead society with women at his side to respect, acknowledge, and love him. Women did not have another choice at this time, because the idea of one race empowering all was still practiced as the new century was born. As devastated as Mrs. Mallard seems in “The Story of an Hour,“ by Kate Chopin, the death of her husband revealed a whole world of happiness and freedom in her life away from societies norm. Her reaction to this tragedy, as unnatural as it seems, shows the flaws within society at the time.
At first Mrs. Mallard reacts to the news of her husbands death in the way which she is expected to react. “She wept at once…[and] went away to her room alone…”, possibly in order to reflect on these tragic news. Yet, looking through the window in her room at the view of “new spring life(5)” and the “patches of blue......

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Title: The Story Of An Hour
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