The truth was buried with Louise. ... Louise is said to "not hear the story as many women have heard the same." ... Now the reader starts to see the world through Louise's eyes, a world full of new and pure life. ... Louise realizes that her husband had loved her, but she goes on to explain that as men and women often inhibit eachother, even if it is done with the best of intentions, they exert their own wills upon eachother. ... The point in life where we can't do what people around us would like us to, and therefore being decisive and a little selfish, is the idea incorporated...

• Word Count: 563
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Louise opens the door, and collapses in her sisters arms. ... It is Louise's husband; he is alive and well. ... Louise's words in the story are "Free! ... Men in this time were in the ones in control; women had little opportunity for input, if any. ... His comforting is taken a little too far and things get out of hand. ...

• Word Count: 1093
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Louise opens the door, and collapses in her sisters arms. ... It is Louise's husband; he is alive and well. ... Louise's words in the story are "Free! ... Men in this time were in the ones in control; women had little opportunity for input, if any. ... His comforting is taken a little too far and things get out of hand. ...

• Word Count: 1023
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Characters Louise Mallard Her husband is reportedly killed in a train accident. ... Brently Mallard He is Louise's husband, who was reportedly killed in a train accident. Although Louise remembers him as a kind and loving man, she sees him as the primary reason of why she was reduced to the state of a typical obedient housewife. ... Josephine She is Louise's sister who carefully informed her about her husband's death. Richards He was Brently's friend who learned about the train accident and Brently's death at the newspaper office, and was present when Josephine told L...

• Word Count: 2566
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Louise Mallard is the variance protagonist of "The Story of an Hour," who is faced with her husband Richard's death, in a time when women had to have a man in their lives in order to be respected and survive. ... As with the phrase "the face the never looked save with love upon her," Chopin starts to get little more descriptive of how Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Louise Mallard is the variance protagonist of "The Story of an Hour," who is faced with her husband Richard's death, in a time when women had to have a man in their lives in order to be respected and survive. ... As with the phrase "the face the never looked save with love upon her," Chopin starts to get little more descriptive of how Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 723
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School