Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" gives us a lot of information in just a short period of time. As the title of the story suggests, all that takes place really does take only an hour. In this short hour however, Chopin does a magnificent job of giving the reader, suspense, drama, ideas of feminism, love and hate. I will choose to focus on the idea of love and hate throughout "The Story of an Hour", and how Chopin is able to beautifully weave this concept in and out on many occasions. I will also focus on hints that I have picked up through the text provided, that tells us how exactly Mrs. Mallard felt before this dramatic hour took place.
             We learn early in the story that Mrs. Mallard "was afflicted with a heart trouble." Later on I will show how that quote is very much, indeed ironic. Exactly what is wrong with her heart is never told to us, which provides me with this line of thinking. I believe that Mrs. Mallard's heart trouble was due to her husband, Brently Mallard. Mrs. Mallard was not that much in love with Brently, and it was taking a toll on her heart. "Great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death." Wouldn't great care be taken to break the news no matter if the woman had heart trouble or not? I would think that if my spouse had just died in a tragic railroad accident, I would not want the news told to me in the same manner the weather report is. That is why I feel that the whole idea of "heart trouble" that afflicts Mrs. Mallard has more to do with a mental ailment, and the lack of love for her husband.
             Once Mrs. Mallard finds out that her husband has just died, "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment." Chopin's usage of the words, at once, sudden, and wild, tells me that Mrs. Mallard is putting on a show. Here she is being told this news, with her sister Jose...