Part one of term paper
Kate Chopin’s, “The Story of an Hour” is about a woman who is devastated when she first hears of her husband’s death, but shortly thereafter is filled with happiness. Many readers may think of the main character, Mrs. Louise Mallard, as a cold, unfeeling woman. However, on closer examination one can see just how much of a sympathe ...

Part two of term paper
... looking forward to life which is illustrated by the excerpt, “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.” We can safely assume Brently Mallard was a charitable person who loved his wife, since Chopin writes of him having “kind, tender hands” and a “face that had never looked save with love upon her.” And yet Mrs. Mallard seems almost grateful for his death and the chance to be free from her husba ...