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When I first began reading "The Story of an Hour," Mrs. Mallard seemed to me an old woman and as Chopin states in the very first line, she is "afflicted with a heart trouble." I was surprised in the eighth paragraph when Chopin tells us that "She was young," but even more interesting to me that she is described as having "a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression" which depicts her as being old for her age. The description of this repression is backed up when Chopin gives us the reason for Mrs. Mallard's "monstrous joy" which reads thus: "There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature."
After reading through this story the first time, I had many questions and many conclusions. For instance, it seems as if Chopin is showing us a social situation of the times with the woman as prisoner of her husband. It is common knowledge that marriages are not always about mutual love between two people and during the time that Chopin was writing, this was more often the case. Marriage was as much about monetary comfort, social status and acceptance as it was about possible love. There are no children mentioned in this story which makes me wonder if there was a sexual relationship between the Mallards. It seems from the description that Mrs. Mallard has been trapped in this marriage for a long time even though we know she is young. How young is she? Even though I say she feels trapped, I do not think this marriage was arranged, but
instead that she has been coerced by her society to marry despite what she may have wanted to do in her heart and soul. I believe she does love her husband, but it is possible to love a man and not be married to him. This was not her case; if she were able (meaning a man would agree with her decision) and she did engage in a loving relationship with a man who was not her husband, she would have...
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