Dreams of Louise in "The Story of an Hour". 

The marriage is a promise of love made by two people who enjoy joining. In this story, Kate has seen us that in the case of Mrs. Mallard and Mr. Mallard, love was not the deciding variable for marriage. Toward the start of the story, Richards and Josephine accept they should report the passing of Brently Mallard to Louise Mallard as carefully as could be expected under the circumstances. Josephine informs him 'in broken sentences; hidden implications that are uncovered midway.' His supposition, not irrational, is that this inconceivable news will obliterate Louise and undermine his frail heart. In any case, something much increasingly unfathomable is covered up in this story Louise's growing awareness of the freedom she will have without Brently. At first, she is not consciously allowed to think about this freedom. Information goes to her without words and emblematically, through the 'open window' through which she sees the 'open square' before her home.

The reiteration of 'open' accentuates the probability and absence of limitations. The scene is brimming with vitality and expectation. The trees are ' all full of life with the new source of life ', the ' delicious breath of rain ' is noticeable all around, the sparrows are tweeting and Louise can hear somebody singing a melody out yonder. She can see 'blue sky patches' in the middle of the clouds. She observes these patches of blue sky without recording what they could mean. In describing Louise's gaze, Chopin writes: 'It was not a reflective look, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thinking.' If she had been thinking intelligently, social norms could have prevented her from being so heretical. Instead, the world offers 'veiled insinuations' that he slowly joins without realizing that he is doing so. In fact, Louise opposes the looming cognizance, thinking of her as 'dreadful'. When he understands what it is, he endeavors 'to conquer it with his will.' However, his quality is too ground-breaking to even consider opposing. Why is Louise so happy? Louise appears to be happy that her husband has died. but, that isn't exactly precise.

She thinks about Brently's 'kind and delicate hands' and 'the face she had never observed, aside from with affection', and perceives that she has not completed the process of sobbing for him. When you enable yourself to perceive your next opportunity, state 'free' again and again, relishing it. His dread and boundless look are supplanted by acknowledgment and feeling. She anticipates 'the following hardly any years that would have a place with her completely.' In one of the most significant sections ever, Chopin portrays Louise's vision of self-assurance. It isn't such a great amount about disposing of your significant other as being totally responsible for your very own life, 'body and soul.' Chopin writes: 'There would be no one to live for her for years to come; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending her own in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have the right to impose a will on a fellow-creature.' Notice the phrase men and women. Louise never catalogs any specific offense that Brently has committed against her; rather, the implication seems to be that marriage can be stifling for both parties.

When Brently Mallard enters the house alive and well in the final scene, his appearance is absolutely normal. It is 'a little stained by the trip, which carries its sack and umbrella.' Her mundane appearance contrasts greatly with Louise's 'feverish triumph' and her walk down the stairs as a 'goddess of victory.' When doctors determine that Louise 'died of heart disease, of joy that kills', the reader immediately recognizes the irony. It seems clear that her shock was not of joy for the survival of her husband, but rather of anguish for having lost his beloved and newly discovered freedom. Louise briefly experienced the joy, the joy of imagining herself controlling her own life. And it was the elimination of that intense joy that led to his death.