Story Of An Hour
When I read Kate Chopin's, "" I am reminded of a Edgar Allan Poe horror poems. The narrator has a "divine transformation" yet it kills her. This puzzles me, so I will search for the true meaning of this strange story (marriage, as I believe). To accomplish this task and to truly understand this short story, I will first learn about Kate Chopin's life and experiences. Later, I will investigate her use of symbolism in "" and their' dual purposes (to the story and to Kate Chopin's life/how it relates to her) mainly dealing with marriage.
After researching the life of Kate Chopin, her works do not seem so strange, in comparison with her life and grief. Seemingly death and ...
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throughout her whole life. At the tender age of five, her father, Thomas O'Flaherty died in a rail accident2. Seven years later, her great grandmother, Victoire Verdon Charleville dies, who she had been living with for six years. The same year, Kate's half-brother, George O'Flaherty, dies of typhoid fever3. During the next seven years, she graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart and visited New Orleans, which she loves. She marries, Oscar Chopin, they have six children, but in 1882, Oscar dies of malaria4. One year later, Kate's mother dies. After, moving back to her native St. Louis she beings to write and attempts to have several works published with no success. So begins her struggle with society and herself, which consumes her until death in 1904.
In 1894, Kate Chopin created my subject of focus, "Story of an Hour." After several re-reads it becomes more apparent that Chopin uses symbolism to substitute long description and explanations. This allows ...
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