Chopin employs imagery to indicate Louise's realization A. ... Chopin utilizes symbols to illustrate Louise's circumstance A. ... Chopin uses irony for a unique ending to the story A. Louise dies at her husband's reappearance The oppression of women in the late nineteenth century is the predominant theme in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour.... These images associated with Louise's sensory awakening indicate a new birth. ...

• Word Count: 802
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Awakening, Kate Chopin That summer at Grand Isle changed her life forever. ... In Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, Edna undergoes a process of serious self-examination into her life as a mother, wife, and a woman stuck under the pressures of high society. ... Early on in the novel Edna recognizes that she has lived "a small life all within herself- (Chopin, 35). ... Mandelet about her actions "her awakenings. ... Edna's awakenings are more than simple eye-opener situations. ...

• Word Count: 915
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" death leads to an awakening sense of freedom within Louise Mallard. The news of her husband's death releases not only a sense of relief, but a feeling of true happiness. Yet in the end, it is the death of her happiness and joy that kills her in the end, no...

• Word Count: 380
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

After examining chapters 6 and 39 of Kate Chopin's story The Awakening, one is able to see that the author planned to depict the final scene to be tragic yet triumphant. Like Edna's final act in chapter 39, the first half of chapter 6 allows the reader to understand that Edna is lost in her search...

• Word Count: 631
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" is an excellent short story of tragic irony. ... Throughout the story, Chopin uses various images to reveal the different themes. ... The first instance that the reader witnesses Chopin's imagery is when Louise leaves the company of her sister and her husband's friend and enters her room by herself. ... The smell of rain in the air symbolizes the beginning of life and her new awakening. ... Kate Chopin wrote this short story in 1892. ...

• Word Count: 1009
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School