KOHEI YOKOMI
Amy Lee
Reading Writing 645
4/20/2013
Summary-Response
“The Story of An Hour”, by Kate Chopin
Summary
Kate Chopin, in “The Story of An Hour”,
describes that feeling of freedom of Mrs. Mallard who is told of her husband`s
death, and then, her own death upon seeing her husband who should have died.
Mrs. Mallard is afflicted with a heart trouble, so her sister and her husband`s
friend tell her as gently as possible that her husband had died in a railroad disaster. At first she can`t
accept his death, but she cries at once and shuts herself up in her room. She
is crying in her room, but gradually she begins to think that she won`t have to
live for him from now and she is free. Although she had loved him at times,
often she had not. Her sister worries about her and asks her to open the door.
Mallard doesn`t want to open the door but she opens the door to her sister`s importunities.
Then she descends the stairs with her sister. But suddenly her husband who
should have died enters from the front door. Actually, he had been far the
scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. She sees him and
dies with shock. “When the doctors come,
they say she has died of the heart disease—of the joy that kills”.
Response
In sum, the author creates a picture of her
confusing emotion by using description of scenery. With her story, she shows
how people feel when their spouse dies. In this story, Mrs. Mallard feels
freedom at last when her husband died. I generally agree with the author that
people may feel freedom when their spouse dies. No matter how much you love
your lover, I`m sure you sometimes feel tired because of him/her, especially
wives have to do housework for him and I think it is sometimes an annoying work.
So, a wife may feel that she won`t have to live for someone from now when her
husband has died. But, some wives never feel like that. She just feels grief
and wishes her husband was alive. I wish the author had described how Mrs.
Mallard had loved her husband in more detail.
Despite this, I generally agree with the author`s idea and this story has a
really surprising ending. I didn`t expect this ending. I would recommend this
story to others for that reason.
You did a great job Kohei; I was shocked when I read the ending of the story. It has unexpected ending. That’s so sad, but I really enjoyed reading it. I like Kate Chopin stories. I have read one story that written by her it calls Beyond the Bayou. It is about a slave her name is La Folle who lives alone in a cabin on a plantation and has never crossed the bayou into the outer world, because she is so afraid of the unknown. When the master's son Chéri accidentally injures himself while hunting, she recognizes that she must cross the bayou to seek help. Her terror at doing so nearly drives her mad, but when she reawakens after fainting upon delivery of Chéri, she calmly crosses the bayou and rejoices in the possibilities of her new world.
ReplyDeleteHi, Kohei! I've read this novel before, so I deemly remember this story. This story is really shocking. I think this story's back ground is 19th century and the women is just like posession of the men at that times. I think the novel criticizes the society that gives women some obligations like obey to husband. Therefore, Mrs. Mallard could feel like freedom. I think your summary is clear to understand :^)
ReplyDeleteHi Kohei, Great job I was fascinated by your summary and response. I
ReplyDeletethe story is interesting and I generally agree with you. Sometime, there is a period in marriage that the both couple feel the love gets weak. The end of story was unpredictable I have never thought
that the end will be like that. Again thank you so much for you summary and response.
Hi Kohei, I really like your response and your summary I find they are so clear and interesting. Also, the story events are exciting because it gives us a picture of how the emotions would be when someone lost his or her spouse. Despite this I don’t find that there are people who feel freedom when they lose their spouse because when someone loves someone else real love they will find the freedom all the time next each other. Love and married does not mean lack of freedom, but there are rules and limits for everything in this life, so we have to keep our religion and what we belief in our minds.
ReplyDeleteHi Kohei,
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for this amazing story.It's really interesting which has a horrible event when the woman saw her husband who was still alive. That was the horrible event , and I heard story in my country but has different end which someone was surprising about his son's death when people told him that his son died, but he didn't believe that until he saw his son alive. Both of them are still alive, so according from my story I recommend for all people that they have to be sure about them news before they tell people about them.