The Story of an Hour- A story about women's rights The Story of an Hour, which was written by Kate Chopin, tell us a story about a woman who lived in 19 century and experiences a series of things within an hour: Knowing the news about her husband's death and then finding he's coming back. In order to show a real society during that time period and reflect that women were treated unfair in old society, the author of this short novel used some rhetoric and irony, even some psychological description of the women who named Ms. Mallard. And here are some specific reasons as follows to illustrate how old society treated women unfairly.
To begin with, after reading this short novel, we can find that women have no rights in 19 century according to 3 main point: firstly, from paragraph 14, the author mentioned that "there would be no powerful will bending her in that persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow Creature". That shows that in the past, men handled the authorities and they imposed their own thinking in women. Secondly, we can find the name Mrs. Mallard changed back to Louise when others knew that her husband's de and the author only called this women as Mrs. Mallard, but just called other as their first name, so this is a hint that author wanted to show women's status in old society, because her husband's family name is Mallard, so she must follow his family name and became Mrs. Mallard after the wedding, but now her husband was gone, do others could just call her first name Louise". This small details is a traditional rule that when women got married, their last name have to change to the same as their husband's last name, and that also confirmed that the of status women were lower than men. In addition, according to the last paragraph, we know that Mrs. Mallard died after she found her husband was alive, but "the doctor came and they said she had died of heart disease joy that kills". This is ironic because the doctor's estimate of Mrs. Mallard was wrong. The reason why she died was not too happy to see her husband. Actually the truth was after an hour of thinking, her mood changed from sadness to happiness, so when she saw her husband again, she was surprised and she could not stand that her freedom and right was gone. That shows women did not have authorities, so when they thought th...
