In this story, Kate Chopin focuses on a late nineteenth- century American woman's striking hour of awakening into individuality, which allows her to live the last moments of her life with a consciousness of life's extensive beauty (Jami 215). ... By the time The Story of an Hour was written, like most of her other short stories, it was rejected from different publications on moral grounds because editors noticed in the text an improper interest in female self-assertion and sexual liberation. ... The story is written in first person, for the unnamed protagonist is the narrator tellin...

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