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she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women ar...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

sufficient enough pay to maintain his family. Bob becomes depressed, despondent and even suicidal. Bob is not alone, however. T...

the written word, either as a creative work or as a study (Lefevere, 1992). Under the 1988 a literary work has a broader definitio...

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...

the mountain (Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain). As the characters wait for Fox Volant, they start to recall incidents from the p...