The short story "The Story of an Hour," written by Kate Chopin, is filled with many occurrences and connections that sparked my interest. One thing in particular was the incorporation of spring in the story. ... A second thing that I found interesting in this short story was the fact that Mrs. ... Mallard did get what she wanted in the end of the story. ... Mallard is like many women in society during the time frame that this short story was written. ...

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In this short story Kate Chopin employed sight imagery to relate Louise Mallard's emotions in The Story of an Hour. ... Sight imagery is again used to relate the realism in the story, The Story of an Hour, to life and to refute the beliefs of the Romantics. ... Kate Chopin also utilized taste imagery in The Story of an Hour. ... In a Romantic's story Louise's husband would have returned from the accident unharmed, or slightly injured. This does happen in the story, but as if a final kick at the Romantics, the main character is killed by Kate Chopin. ...

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In Kate Chopin's short story, "The Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard is introduced as the housewife who has a heart condition and has recently discovered the "death" of her husband. ... This short story demonstrates the issue of male dominance and the role of woman in marriage in the society during her time. Kate Chopin portrays inside this story the lack of women's freedom in the 1800's. ... "The story would be equally impossible without the technology of the telegraph" (Foote 87). ... The outside world is not described much in this short story bu...

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In the story you learn immediately of the death of Mrs. ... Even though, she was alive for a short while after she heard of her husband's death, that was the only real time she had to live the way she wanted to. The author wanted to push the envelope and wanted to show, in this story, the tribulations a woman goes through when she is neglected and unloved and forced to live through someone else...

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This short story depicts the typical life and marriage of a woman in this time era. ... Chopin's, "The Story of an Hour" expresses a woman's desire for independence. This is clearly evident within the physical, and emotional setting of the story. Within the opening paragraphs of the short story Chopin notes that Mrs. ... As seen later in the story, Mrs. ...

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The Story of an Hour Written by author, Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" is a short story where an often unheard of view about marriage in presented. ... "The Story of an Hour" is a literary piece that suggests the idea of a marriage being a state of oppression and smothering rather than loving and open. ... Mallard's story, she does not do so in first person but rather through a narrator's voice. ... Mallard had, in a very short time, realized the world is a wonderful place and that she can live in it anyway she chooses. ... Through this sequence of events, it is e...

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In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," irony is used to expand the main theme. ... Her statements foreshadow an ironic conclusion to Kate Chopin's short story. ... Kate Chopin's short fiction, "The Story of an Hour," is full of ironies that greatly develop the main theme. ...

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A window, nature and a passing storm were symbols used by Chopin in "The Story of an Hour." ... The Story leads us to her room where she takes a seat in an armchair that we learn is "facing an open window." ... The symbolic use of weather in the story started with the unfortunate news of Mr. ... She realizes that life is shorter than people think and sets out to enjoy hers. ... The brilliance of writing a story with the use of this powerful symbolism allowed Chopin to quickly show the changing viewpoint of Mrs. ...

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Emotional Changes in an Hour In the short story "A Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin, the whole range of emotions are felt by the main charter Louise Mallard, in hearing the news of her husband's tragic death then subsequent revelation of its fallacy. ... Mallard has liberated through her supposed husband's death as well as through herself death at the end of the story. ...

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In "The Story of An Hour", Kate Chopin makes use of the setting, symbols, as well as her choice of words to show the realization and change in perception of the main character. ... When the story opens, the characters are on the main floor of the Mallard household. ... At the beginning of the story when she is downstairs she is known by her husband's name. ... Only a short while ago she was saddened because life looked to long, but now she was looking forward to the years to come. Throughout "The Story of an Hour" the main character comes to the realization that she can have her own lif...

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The story's plot revolves around a couple playing scrabble, and the humor the story delivers allows the reader to clearly understand the significance of the story and why the humor is vital to the main character's actions. ... These are the question that popped into my head as I was reading the story. There is no evidence in the story to answer these question, so I came to some of my own conclusions. ... The story ends with their last words, he plays Quake, and the ground starts to shake. ... While through the whole story the husband is wishing she would die. ...

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In Angela Carters 'The Bloody Chamber' death appears in most of the short stories, but in different ways both actually and metaphorically. ... Similarly, in "The Snow Child," the count appears to have an unhealthy fascination with death as an act of necrophilia arises at the climax of the short story. ... As the short story progresses, the narrator discovers more and more victims of the Marquis's murders. ... This event of graphic necrophilia is considered the most graphic image in the collection of short stories which explicitly portrays the Count's obsession with death ...

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- This is the key to the short story by Herman Melville "Bartleby-, because it indicates that the image of Bartleby stands as a symbol for humanity on a universal level. This story is appealing for its symbolism. ... With these characteristics, the last line of this short story is very significant. ... Death pervades in the story but not as the end of somebody's life, but as a kind of living death. ... The last line in Melville's story reads "Ah Bartleby! ...

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Topic: In his short stories, Caswell often explores recurring themes. Choose one theme and discuss its use in any THREE short stories in A Dream of Stars. ... "And be one traveller" is another story that deals with identity. 12 year-old Alison was on a plane trip when she suddenly gets sucked into the future. ... The story is confusing at times but sees Alison mature from this experience and find her character as an individual. ... All three stories are in some way or another linked with identity and Brian Caswell has been very clever in using this theme over and over again for each story....

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They are both used very frequently throughout the story. ... In some stories, Negroes sometimes represent death. In the short story, " A Rose for Emily," the color black is symbolic for death, as well as depression and gloom. ... This short story contains a high rate of setting and symbolism, which is thoroughly distributed and revealed throughout the entire story. Setting and symbolism is very prominent throughout the story, and plays one of the biggest roles in the underlying meaning of the entire story. ...

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It is a very difficult challenge to convey the hopeless bleak world in which we live in a mere few pages, but in the short ghost story "Masque of the Red Death," Poe expertly portrays an entire symbolic replica of human life. ... Two of the most essential pieces of the story are the abbey and its inhabitants. ... Beginning the story in the farthest room and ending it in the room opposite also help symbolize the transition from birth to death. ... There is another object in the story that plays along with the room's symbolic passing of life. ... In Poe's short ghost story, Masque ...

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In the short story, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, symbolism is used frequently throughout the story. ... The story basically addresses the changes in the South after the Civil War. ... In the short story, the color black is symbolic for death, as well as depression and gloom. ... The Negro servant in the story plays the role of death because he symbolizes what death has come in the story. ... Symbolism is very important throughout the story, and plays one of the biggest roles in the essential meaning of the entire story. ...

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Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" can be defined as a twentieth-century Modernist fiction short story because it contains all three of the tenants of modernism. The absence of God is evident in this story through Hemingway's images of Nothing. ... The first tenant of modernism exhibited in Hemingway's short story is the absence of God through the image of Nothing. ... The old man's deafness is a powerful image used in the story... This story is filled with images of despair. ...

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Not all authors" lives are reflected in their writing but Kate Chopin's life influenced and paralleled events in her short story, "The Story of an Hour," featured in Michael Meyer's The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. The story was written in the late 19th century when women were inferior to not only their husbands, but men in general. ... Her family doctor "encouraged her to write short stories as a form of therapy" (Classic Lit). ... Mallard's character in "The Story of an Hour" can be paralleled to particular events in the author's life, Chopin. ... Throu...

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Her major works included short stories, children stories, and two novels ("Kate" 2). ... This collection of twenty-three short stories received high praise by critics. ... In it was twenty-one short stories which received similar awards and high praise by both critics and readers alike (Unger 200-201). ... Half of the stories in Bayou Folk and one third of the stories in A Night in Acadie are intended for younger readers. ... Her stories expose the essence of southern living during her time in a way no other author had accomplished before. ...

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The story "Paul's Case,"" by Willa Cather, uses a lot of symbolism to convey the main character, Paul's, feelings. ... Cather mentions flowers repeatedly in this short story. At the start of the story, Paul is being subjected to his teachers' criticisms of him at a meeting with his principle on account of being readmitted to school after his suspension. ... Just as his beautiful, perfect flowers had their chance to shine for a short period, so did Paul. ...

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Hemmingway's characteristics: no dialog tags, realistic, lifelike speech, uses some figurative language, easy to understand, simple yet deeper meanings, lots of sarcasm- hard-boiled, masculine style, lots of ands, very blunt, downplays death, emphasis on violence and war, contrasts, deals with common man, descriptive imagery, uses nature, reversed order, repetition and parallelism, staccato Hemmingway Short Stories Clean Well-Lighted Place: Characters: Old man, two waiters Themes: money is the only thing of importance, Old waiter is the Hemmingway hero, he doesn't want to go to...

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A short, quick life has always been more my speed, but after watching Forever Young, I had to think about what it would feel like to grow old and how to go about accepting the aging process. ... At least growing old is in the picture for me though instead of my thought of a short life. The aging process is often associated with arthritis, gray hair, and memory loss, but to me growing old is just adding stories to my autobiography in which once in a while some deal with how many aches and pains I have acquired over the years. Sure it has never been my ideal to live into my nineties, but lat...

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In the short story, "The Things They Carried," Tim O"Brien writes about the soldiers of Vietnam and the self versus war or nature that all of them had to carry with them. In this story, O"Brien writes about the intangible things that the soldiers carry with them such as memories and fears and also the actual material things that they carried. ... The soldiers all want to escape the reality of what is going on around them and the protagonist in the story, Lt. ... The characters in this story have to deal with it and O"Brien shows the many different ways that they do deal with death and killi...

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Isolation, loneliness and alienation; these are three important themes in the short stories, "The Story of an Hour", "Eveline" and "A Rose for Emily. Each story draws you in and provides examples of these three things in very different ways. In discussing these three stories I shall provide examples of how each of the main characters from the aforementioned short stories share the same characteristics of loneliness and isolation; each trapped in their own particular set of circumstances. ... Louise Mallard, the victim and messenger of this story, is the image of such a...

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