An Hour of Freedom         In Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour, Louise M on the wholeard indulges in a liberating, mental journey of exemption after she receives discussion of her husbands accidental death. Ultimately, her hour of unhindered exhilaration precipitates her own sudden death when her husband, Bentley, returns home alive and well. Throughout the story, Chopin uses symbolism as her basis as well as irony and bode to further emphasize her message. The Story of an Hour raises the question, In this story, whoremaster love and freedom exist simultaneously, and more importantly why does Louise have these contradicting feelings?         Through detailed imagery Chopin expresses the emotions of Mrs. Mallard. The welling of these emotions starts with the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life (Chopin 5). She is leaving the readers with this indication of freedom and Chopin states, the delicious breath of rain was in the cable, which offers the readers another trace of hope (5). Further description states that there are patches of grisly sky which symbolizes the hope of freedom surfacing throughout the trouble and sorrow of her husbands death (9). Chopin suggests that Mrs.
Mallard is looking forward to the prox and glad of the passing of her oppression by stating She felt it, weirdy out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air (8). This is the first hint that gives the readers a signified of Mrs. Mallards contradicting feelings. While she has this sense of freedom at first, she now has this force come oer her and it terrifies her. When told of the news that her husband has died in an accident, Mrs. Mallard immediately starts to cry, goes into a state of shock, and proceeds up to her room...
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