Kate Chopin’s construction of character in “The Story of an Hour”
reinforces the authors ideas about women’s struggle for equality during
the early 1900’s as well as today.
In Kate Chopin’s story, “The Story of an Hour”, the line
“She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to
posses her, and she was striving to beat it back with all her will- as
powerless as her two white slender hands would have been”, states just
how much she struggled in the 1900’s. She was her husband’s shadow, and
now that he was gone- there was nothing for her. She struggled with
herself before her husband died, and now she faces hardships of becoming
herself. Women struggled to become their own person, especially with a
demanding husband.
No comments:
Post a Comment