The Story of an Hour Essay

“The Story of an Hour”
Marriage can be great; it can be tough as like in “The Story of an Hour.” People who are married most likely love the person they are married to. Some of the people love the person they marry but then later find out they aren’t for each other. If the people don’t like the people they are married to they will probably get a divorce. Back when this story was written, getting divorced was not heard of. If a couple got divorced back then the man would have to divorce the women because the women didn’t work back then. The men worked, they were the breadwinners.
Symbols are very important in movies, books, and or poems. “The Story of an Hour” has a lot of symbols. One of my favorite symbols that I think sticks out the most is the chair she drifts off in after she hears of her husband’s death. While in this chair she thinks of her new life and how it was going to be so much better and so much nicer. Another symbol that I think is important is the window that she sits at when she is done with her crying and when she is thinking about all the new good things that were going to happen. I think this symbolizes all of the good things that her and her husband could have done together and what else she could have done with him. I think it also symbolizes the beginning of a new life.
There is a theme in every movie, book, novel, poem, ect. One of the themes for the novel “The Story of an Hour” is how when she is told that her husband died and she sobbed for a very long time. Then all of a sudden she became happy that her husband had died and that she would be free. She would finally be free from marriage. She then dreams of her sister coming to her house and making her feel better but the only problem is that she locked herself in her bedroom looking out the open window gazing at the tree tops looking at freedom.
The mode of “The story of an hour is irony because it begins with chaos. The chaos is when she is in the marriage that she doesn’t want to be in. She doesn’t want to be in the marriage because it is sometimes abusive, and not good to be around. It is also irony because the conflict is serious because she thinks her husband dies. It is also irony because it ends in death when her husband walks in the door. When he walked in the door she was so shocked that she died when she saw him.
“The Story of an Hour” is a great short story with lots of symbols. This short novel involves a woman who doesn’t like her husband but can’t get divorced from him because it wasn’t heard of back then. It wasn’t heard of back then because men where the breadwinners and women didn’t work so they couldn’t make money. If someone got divorced the man would divorce the women, the women wouldn’t divorce the man.