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The Story of an Hour

Development of the story. What medical condition does Mrs. Mallard suffer from?What happened to her husband?What was her immediate reaction?When Mrs. Mallard is alone in her room (sitting and looking out her window) what specific things does she take notice of? What new feeling does she ultimate

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The Story of an Hour

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    1. The Story of an Hour By Kate Chopin

    2. Development of the story What medical condition does Mrs. Mallard suffer from? What happened to her husband? What was her immediate reaction? When Mrs. Mallard is alone in her room (sitting and looking out her window) what specific things does she take notice of? What new feeling does she ultimately embrace? How does she feel about her husband? Indications of what type of marriage they had? What is Josephine worried about with regards to Mrs. Mallard? What happened to Mrs. Mallard at the end of the story? Two different perspectives?

    3. Comparisons: Springtime/Nature =Change? Story of an Hour Their Eyes Were watching god “All aquiver with new spring life” “The delicious breath of rain was in the air.” “Patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds…” “But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.” “Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own.” “went rollicking with the springtime across the world” “Springtime reached her in there so she moved…to where she could see the road.” “The morning air was like a new dress…picking flowers and making a bouquet. “She was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.” “Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time, and an orange time.”

    4. Feelings about husbands/oppression Story of an Hour Their eyes were watching god “There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature.” “He had a bow-down command in his face.” “He loves obedience out of everybody under the sound of his voice.” “He wanted her submission and he’d keep on fighting until he felt that he had it.” “She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.

    5. Reaction to Husband’s Death Story of an hour Their eyes were watching god “ She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength…It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.” “She cried often in the weeks that followed.” (Leading up to the final confrontation) “Then she thought of herself. Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass…The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place.” “Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil. It was like a wall of stone and steel.”

    6. Story of an Hour Their eyes were watching god “Free! Body and soul free!” “But she saw past that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.” “She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.” Janie destroys all her head rags. “To my thinkin’ mourning oughtn’t las no longer’n grief.” “Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun. So Janie had another day. And every day had a store in it…” “They years took all the fight out of Janie’s face. For a while she thought it was gone from her soul….she was a rut in the road.”

    7. Other Comparisons to Consider Looking out the window vs. The Horizon Mrs. Mallard emotions/thoughts when alone in her room vs. Janie’s thoughts/emotions at the very end of novel when she is thinking about Teacake. Sad endings – Mrs. Mallard “the joy that kills” vs. Annie Tyler “She had waited all her life for something, it had killed her when it found her.”

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