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Running Head: FICTIONAL ANALYSIS
: FICTIONAL ANALYSIS
Fiction analysis involves the breaking down of aspects of a fictional story, and subjectively
explaining those aspects in detail. This paper involves a fictional analysis of two short stories;
“The Story of an Hour” and “The Storm”, both by Kate Chopin.
The Story of an Hour
Synopsis of the story
The story of an hour is about an ailing wife who thinks her husband is dead, and she starts
fantasizing about a whole new life of freedom of herself. She later dies of shock once she
realizes her husband is still alive ("The Story of an Hour": Kate Chopin (1894)").
Themes in the story
Freedom is among the primary themes in this story. Freedom in a relationship allows each
party to pursue their own social, career, and financial paths as they wish. Mrs Mallard, despite
the love and acknowledgement her husband accords her, still feels oppressed by marriage. The
night before her husband's "death", Mrs Mallard had hoped her life to be short; she felt like
her marriage was bondage. Looking out of the window in her room, Mrs Mallard sees birds
flying up and down, and patches of blue sky; and she felt a sense of freedom at last. Off down
the stairs, she walked "like a goddess of victory", feeling like she had won against the
oppression of her marriage; only to see her husband walk in the door. Seeing her husband
alive, Mrs Mallard was shocked; and the realization that her dre...
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