Thesis # 2: By contrasting images of life with those of death throughout “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin highlights the struggle of a person imprisoned by societal pressures and thereby kept from fully being alive.
“There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself”. Chopin is expressing how men during the 1900s were more dominate and controlled their spouse’s life. Women during those times married at a young age and it was there only duty to take care of the home. Also, if women did seek a life without a want or need for a husband during those times it was frowned upon.
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