The Story of an Hour: A Brief Analysis
             What may come to someone's mind when it comes talking about of women? What they may think is that they are someone who takes care of the children, cleans the house, cooks good food, or simply saying that she is someone who has a full time job to look after the needs of the family. Moreover, women are the unvoiced life form in the society during the 1800s. On the contrary, people rarely think about the strength of a woman behind their wide range of emotions and sensitivity. Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" reveals that women are capable of expressing strength and independence, which contradicts the society's belief about women during the nineteenth-century.
             The story took place during the spring season of the nineteenth-century. Chopin mentioned "the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life" when Mrs. Mallard looked through the window that gave a lucid picture of the spring season. The words "railroad" and "telegram" that are used in the story clearly indicates the time frame since these inventions were commonly used during the nineteenth-century.
             Chopin describes the appearance of Mrs. Mallard's face in the story: "She was young, with a fair, calm face." Mrs. Mallard is an attractive, admirable, and a simple woman as learned from the Chopin's description. "There stood facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy chair" connotes that she has wealthy-living. Generally, Mrs. Mallard is a refined, elegant woman during the nineteenth-century that belongs to the upper-class society.
             At the beginning of the story, it was known that Mrs. Mallard was "afflicted with a heart trouble," which labeled her as a weak woman physically and emotionally. Her sister, Josephine and her husband's friend Richards couldn't inform her directly that her husband was dead. They are wor...