Analysis of The Story of an Hour

The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin is the tragic story of a woman whose newfound position as a widow gives her strength. She develops a sense of freedom as she embraces her husbands death as an opportunity to establish her own identity. The tragedy is when her newfound identity gets nude away as the air of her husband reveals that he is fluid alive. The disappointment from this tragedy kills her with a heart attack symbolising the many conflicts that she faced end-to-end the story. The conflicts the character faces within her egotism and party show that the genial norms for women were suppressing to their strength and individuality as human beings.\nThe character of Josephine is there to represent her conflict against connection. As the story starts up, she as Mrs. mallard  turns to her sister Josephine and weeps in her blazon after hearing the fast news of her husbands death. This is her acknowledging the distress that gild expects her to feel. Her clearness to Josephine represents the acceptance that came with playing in accordance with what society anticipate. The passage continues, When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her way of life alone.  The fact that she does not pack Josephine with her implies the conflict that is about to mystify place. Josephine is the social norms, assuming that she is fallible without her husband by her side. Mrs. Mallards isolation from this assumption represents that she has strength and shadower stand on her own. This expected strength is confirmed as Chopin writes, Josephine was kneeling before the unlikable ingress with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. Louise, open the door! I solicit; open the door. You will set out yourself ill. The closed door to Josephine shows her closing to close her metaphorical door to the confinements of society. Josephines position of kneeling shows how such(prenominal) power this character has against society with her n ewfound freedom from the b...