Kate Chopin uses characterization to help guide the readers through understanding the changes occurring throughout, “The Story of an Hour”. It is through her use of round/dynamic and flat/static characters we as readers are able to relate to what Ms. Mallard is going through without having to have experienced this situation ourselves. In this story we meet a young woman, Ms. Mallard, her sister, Josephine, her brothers close friend, Richard, and her husband, Brently Mallard. In the very beginning of the story Ms. Mallard is given some truly tragic news. She learns that her husband Brently has been killed in a tragic accident. Though there are few characters and only one is a main character we the readers are able to ascertain a lot about Ms.
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‘Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door — you will make yourself ill. What are you doing Louise? For heaven’s sake open the door.’” for she is still under the impression that Ms. Mallard is very upset. However when you view things from Ms. Mallard’s side of the door you might find things are playing out a little differently than Richard and Josephine might think. When you begin to read and you see things from Ms. Mallards point of view you might believe that the others were correct about Louise. You first see the scene Josephine also witnessed, Ms. Mallard “did not hear the story as many woman 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 on follow …show more content…
If Chopin had chosen to make all her characters flat characters however we would not be able to properly understand what happened. She allows us to see the changes Ms. Mallard experiences and describes them to the readers in such a way that we are able to relate to everything happening. We feel Lousie’s joy when she finally understands what is happening. We all pull from our own experiences where we have been trapped doing something we didn’t want to do and applied our own emotions to the ones Chopin is describing for Ms. Mallard. She adds depth to the story by using flat characters as well. We are able to read this story as though it was real. We feel the concern emanating from Josephine as she begs at her sisters closed door. We understand the care taken to protect this woman who has supposedly already lost so
‘Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door — you will make yourself ill. What are you doing Louise? For heaven’s sake open the door.’” for she is still under the impression that Ms. Mallard is very upset. However when you view things from Ms. Mallard’s side of the door you might find things are playing out a little differently than Richard and Josephine might think. When you begin to read and you see things from Ms. Mallards point of view you might believe that the others were correct about Louise. You first see the scene Josephine also witnessed, Ms. Mallard “did not hear the story as many woman 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 on follow …show more content…
If Chopin had chosen to make all her characters flat characters however we would not be able to properly understand what happened. She allows us to see the changes Ms. Mallard experiences and describes them to the readers in such a way that we are able to relate to everything happening. We feel Lousie’s joy when she finally understands what is happening. We all pull from our own experiences where we have been trapped doing something we didn’t want to do and applied our own emotions to the ones Chopin is describing for Ms. Mallard. She adds depth to the story by using flat characters as well. We are able to read this story as though it was real. We feel the concern emanating from Josephine as she begs at her sisters closed door. We understand the care taken to protect this woman who has supposedly already lost so