Sometimes, when moments of fantasy grabs the best of our mind and wish harm to others like our own husbands for anything. Within the realm of Chopin's "A Story of An Hour" we visit the such desire of the central character loneliness to sense of freedom. The time period of setting is early Victorian age, is point to many factors of women suffrage of rights and hopes of having no obligations of having a husband.The age of women movement wasn't in full affect, women had to deal with the men running the household, raising the children without further education themselves, and always bend down for their husbands. Difficulty is express through the writer point of view of the age of time and dealing of the death of a loved …show more content…
Mallard is settled into world of chaos within the first moments of introduction, by the mention of heart condition(Chopin, par 1). The story is set on a man that travels meets a tragedy that lead to the speechless wife to ponder in seldom pit behind lock door, once hearing the news and leaving the life for another within the clouds outside in the window(Chopin, par 6).Everything leads the audience to her desire of knowing that life is not done for her, that she would keep moving on towards something better and ponder on the things not of misery anymore. Once the lines of, "free, free, free!" are read, we can see the downfall of a marriage within the time period that women had nothing to show of power(Chopin, par 10). Mrs. Mallard adventure of knowledge of that she is now deep within thoughts of life without , doubting nothing that could she face alone without a husband. One thing that shows that she has love for her husband is that she admits she well cry seeing his tender hands folded in death, yet that brings into light of factors of love exist within the realm of marriage from the moment of that is expressed by "had loved him--sometimes, often not"(Chopin par 10,12). The twist of the story that brings you to think of that marriage is not always happy or sincere, only happiness is felt within the loneliness of oneself. The husband return uninjured from any accident, to diminish all hopes of fruitful happy life for Mrs. Mallard, once she sees …show more content…
The women had to stand by their husband, respect what is said nor go against the rules or wishes. Society had different opinions upon views of the way women should be treated, that why Mrs. Mallard has been exalted with such excitement of living for herself not for other(Chopin, par 12). Emphasizing on the factor love within the era, many time marriages weren't not about this feeling, only that it was economical good for everyone that both man and woman be wed and that was right in the eyes of society. To Mrs. Mallard, the marriage had come with more unhappy days from the telling of how she was drinking from the elixir of life, and being able to see past the death of the husband towards a "long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely"(Chopin, par 16,11). Era of time, make one think of what did women have to look for to, is it what Mrs. Mallard vision of happiness from the freedom of becoming widow or something else more greater, the view we have is the marriage of the couple has been affected because of rules of