Analysis of 'The Story of an Hour' - English Assignment, Spring 2024

This assignment provides an analysis of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'. The analysis explores the title's significance, the plot's connection to the title, and the implied unhappiness in the marriage. It defines symbolism and examines the nature symbols within the story, such as spring and blue sky, and their connotations. The document references a source to support its analysis. This resource is designed to help students understand the story's themes and literary devices, providing a comprehensive overview of its key elements, which is a great source for students looking for help with similar assignments.

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What does the title of the reading predict about the story? How is the title linked to the
plot?
From the title “the story of an hour” a reader can make out that it has something to do
with the concept of time. The title speaks of the time elapsed between the news of Mr. Mallards
demise to knowing that he is actually fine. The sense of the title "The story of an hour” is about
the three elements of time in Mrs. Mallards life, that is the history, the present and the future.
The title refers to the story’s duration (an hour) and its actual form. This gives a sense of
urgency and depicts the way thing were and could be in an hour.
What line in the reading infers that Mr. and Mrs. Mallard's marriage is an
unhappy one?
The readers can infer from her reaction to her husband's reported death, two big items
about Mrs Mallard's marriage. She loves her husband, one thing can be inferred. She must not
fake her sorrow or tears; it's not said to us. These tears of sorrow are true. However many years
she was married, her husband was a loyal friend and supplier to her. The storyteller tells the
readers flatly that Mallard loved her husband.
And yet she had loved him—sometimes (Emily, 2020).
It is the "sometimes" that leads people to know more about their union. When you love
someone, you love them always, unconditionally, sometimes is not the definition of the kind of
love that should exist between a husband and a wife.
Define symbolism in your own words. What do the nature symbols in the reading
connote about the story.
Symbolism is the realistic or artful use of an abstract concept using an object or a phrase.
A symbolic significance can be an event, person, location, word, or object.

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The nature is the spring time and blue sky patches.
Spring Time – Mrs Mallard "can see in her room the tops of trees in the open square in
front of the house that was all aquiver of the fresh life of the season."
Blue Sky Patches – Light broke what had been obscured before. This light emerges in the
west, by the end of the day, not by chance. Ms Mallard had previously been ready for a lifetime
to end and felt that there would be just limits. This end now seems promising.

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References
Toth, Emily. “Kate Chopin ‘The Story of an Hour.'” KateChopin.org, Kate Chopin International
Society. www.katechopin.org/the-story-of-an-hour/. Accessed 11 Apr. 2020.