Analysis of The Story of an Hour

The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin is the tragic story of a woman whose newfound personate as a widow woman gives her potentiality. She develops a sense of exemption as she embraces her husbands death as an opportunity to establish her bear identity element. The tragedy is when her newfound identity gets stripped extraneous as the appearance of her husband reveals that he is still alive. The disappointment from this tragedy kills her with a heart firing symbolizing the many conflicts that she go about(predicate) throughout the story. The conflicts the suit faces within her self and society showing that the social norms for women were suppressing to their strength and individuality as human beings.\nThe function of Josephine is there to represent her conflict against society. As the story starts up, she as Mrs. Mallard  turns to her sister Josephine and weeps in her arms after comprehend the sudden news of her husbands death. This is her acknowledging the mourni ng that society expects her to feel. Her openness to Josephine represents the bridal that came with acting in unison with what society expected. The passage continues, When the impel of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone.  The fact that she does non bring Josephine with her implies the conflict that is about to take place. Josephine is the social norms, assuming that she is weak without her husband by her side. Mrs. Mallards isolation from this assumption represents that she has strength and can stand on her own. This expected strength is corroborate as Chopin writes, Josephine was rest in front the closed threshold with her lips to the keyhole, implore for admission. Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door. You exit make yourself ill. The closed door to Josephine shows her decision to close her nonliteral door to the confinements of society. Josephines position of kneeling shows how much power this character has against society with her newfo und independence from the b...