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Throughout the countless hours spent giving and receiving both good and bad news, there almost always seems to be that one odd story, the one that just does not make sense. This is definitely one of those stories. "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin is a story with a common conflict but a not so common conclusion. It is unclear at first who the antagonist is but in the end that becomes very evident. The conflict in this story starts out being a woman's struggle with her husband's apparent death. When she is first confronted by her sister with the news of his death, she reacts as most people would have reacted; "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms." She continues this for a couple of minutes before retreating to her bedroom to sit in seclusion. To this point, it is still believed that the main conflict lies between her and her husband's death.
Then she begins to see that it is spring time and things are blooming the sky is blue and the sun is out and nothing in world outside her bedroom is gloomy or sad. The conflict, in this story, though not clear at first proved to be more than just ordinary. It is then that the reader is sure that the conflict in the story was with her husband's life not his apparent death. She sits down in chair and stares out the window as if to wish her life was also ended. The reader sees that she has been keeping her true feeling in because she knows that it is wrong to think the way that she does. n her room, the reader begins to get some clues as to how she really feels. "Basically, this women has had both the best day of here life and the worst day of her life on the same day. Her true feelings start to come out. " At this point, the reader begins to realize that the conflict in this story was not between her and her husband's death but between her and her husband's life. She is finally "free, free, free!" from her husband's grasp. She for once in long time can do as she pleases without his judgment. When she fist enters her bedroom, she is still distraught and crying. The antagonist in this story is in a way the husband because the primary conflict in the story revolves around him. The rush and confusion of her emotion kills her dead.
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