The Story of an Hour 6

The Story of an Hour

“The Story of an Hour” deals with the complexities of emotions that a married woman, with a bad heart, encounters when her spouse is initially reported as deceased and then though an error turned out to be still be alive and the consequences of the discovery. Marriage involves the submission of personal freedom and the will to another person’s will and the conflicting emotions that love brings with are all trades off that some people are willing to make. I will provide specifics to support each of these hypotheses in the following paragraphs.
Louise has a sense of her ability to choose how she will live her life both short term and long term now that her husband was dead and she was celebrating her freedom. Instead of lamenting her possible life’s longevity she was celebrating the possibility of her ability to choose and wishing for longevity of life because of it. She celebrates her new freedom to determine her future and embraces it with vigor.
The loss of a person’s free will either kind or cruel or intended or unintended but always has the same results - the loss of free will. This is not gender specific but a powerful bending of both body and soul that men or women believe is their right when married.   Louise Mallards had a monetary sense of the freedom from her loss of free will and thorough Bentleys’ death had freed her.
Louise has conflicting emotions regarding her love for Mallard. While he is alive her feelings are both happiness and unhappiness but once she thinks he has died her feelings are both griefs. Louise’s feelings are mostly affected since she thinks she will be staying with Mallard for the rest of her life which she cannot tolerate.
Marriage for Louise required her give up her freedom of her will and her identity for the positive and negative benefits of love. Love’s conflicting positives and negatives are the most difficult area for her to reconcile. The irony is once Louise discovers that Mallard is still...