Part one of term paper
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin gives us a real insight on marriage and relationships. A woman’s repressed thoughts and feeling are untied due to her husband’s tragedy. Mrs. Mallard is suffocated by her husband’s total control over the marriage. The story is set in the late eighteen hundreds. That could be one of the reason ...

Part two of term paper
... many woman have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms” (Chopin 47). It is implied that Mrs. Mallard’s love for her husband has disappeared and she takes the news rather calmly. Mrs. Mallard cries not because of the tragedy, but because it is expected of her. Many responses come from already learned behavior. People react the way they are taught. Mrs. Mallard was a devoted wife; she certain ...