Part 1 of Essay
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin gives us a real insight on marriage and relationships. A woman’s repressed thoughts and feeling are untied due to her husband’s tragedy. Mrs. Mallard is suffocated by her husband’s total control over the marriage. The story is set in the late eighteen hundreds. That could be one of ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... is expected of her. Many responses come from already learned behavior. People react the way they are taught. Mrs. Mallard was a devoted wife; she certainly learned from her mother how married women behave. She sits in her room, “merely letting impressions of the outer and inner worlds wash over her” (Papke 132), trying to make sense of all the emotions that are suddenly falling on her. First, she is afraid of this new feeling of freedom, something different that she never experienced before. She is frightened be ....