Ethan, Quinton, Vanessa, Jasmine - Story of an Hour

Events that take place in the story

Events

• Richard recieved the death of Brently (Mallard's husband)
• Josephine told Mrs. Mallard about her husband's death
• Mallard wept and stayed in her room
• Sat by the window laying her head back on the cushion
• sobbed
• Kept saying about freedom
• Opened the door for her sister
• Brently came back
• Mallard died from heart disease

Emotions

Emotions

• Felt sad at first → Mrs. Mallard heard about her husband's death
• Happy, relieved and felt free→ stays in her room
• Annoyed → bothered by sister and force to open door
• Delighted until she died

Not realistic

hard to change emotions with short time

→especially someone's death (caused huge effect)

• love the person
• Mrs. Mallard won't be joyful

• Hate the person
• Mrs.Mallard won't depressed

Thoughts of the story

Narrator

Impact

• story told by unnamed omniscient narrator
• made the reader understand the details
• why did they know his husband was dead
• the emotions and expressions of the other people

If Mrs. Mallard is the narrator

The story told from Mrs. Mallards's perspective

The reader won't know the last twist

• Mrs. Mallard died → before Brently came

Readers know less → other people feeling → death of Brently

• Original
• Richard second telegram→ ensure Brently's death
• surprised and grief
• family told her carefully
• great empathy
• Mrs. Mallard
• don't know

→ didn't see

→ don't know their mind

Forshadowing for Mrs. Mallard

Forshadows about Mrs.Mallard

• Heart condition
• Physical and emotional shock that Mrs.Mallard will experience upon her husband's death
• Initial reaction
• Reacts "sudden, wild abandonment" when she heard about her husband's death
• Her complex and intense emotional response
• Desire for freedom
• starts to feel a sense of liberation and freedom after crying in her room
• She began to realize that her husband's death means she can live her life independently

Forshadowing of the spring

Discription of spring

• "The delicious breath of rain," "The new spring life" (Chopin 1)
• the renewal and awakening that Mrs. Mallard experiences as she contemplates her newfound independence

Optimistic

Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.

Optimistic

Insincere

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one

Insincere

Independent

Independence

" She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long."

"There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory."

character

Dynamic Character: used to be pessimistic

now: optimistic

Flat: hate about being controlled by other

metaphor -- insincere

Metaphor

storm of grief

• metaphor
• storm describe her grief
• storm → although may be strong, duration short

relative death→ long term effect

use storm→ describe she cried in short time

• not truely depressed
• act avoid suspicion from family

Visual Imagery: Open Window and Nature

Mrs. Mallard stares out an open window where she can see "the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life."

Visual

Olfactory Imagery: The Breath of Rain

Mrs. Mallard senses "the delicious breath of rain" in the air.

Olfactory