Unhappy Marriage
... In the “Story Of An Hour”, Kate Chopin tells us a story of a lady, Mrs. Mallard, who is in a marriage that is not fulfilling to her. She is told her husband has died in a train wreck and that has left her heartbroken and depressed. But then she realizes in a rush of emotion and relief that is she views the world with a fresh outlook, where she will be her own person, and answering only to herself. She seems to have found a remedy to life, which is her husband’s death. But the ending is more ironic than shocking. When she saw her husband is still alive, she passed and the doctor said she died of a joy that kill. They did not understand it was actual joy that she felt so happy and freedom from her unhappy marriage and pain so great that killed her when her husband still alive. Why did Mrs. Mallard dislike her husband so much, that she could rejoice and feel reborn, happy in his? The only answer is her marriage was not a happy one at all. Through the story we can see how depressing her life with her husband was. Unlike most women who find themselves in denial after being told something of this magnitude she wept at once. We find a woman who instead of being upset and heart-broken over her husband’s death is experiencing complete joy over the death of another human being. Which, of course, now gives us the impression that she has been feeling unhappy, and tired in this marriage for a long time. She had loved him at first, yet what could love have to do with the feeling she was having now? All she ever wanted in life was freedom from the unhappy marriage and not to feel entitled to do everything for her husband all the times. Louise finds happiness out of her husband’s death and yet, by the narration, her struggle with guilt and overcome it. It could be argued that her death was really an ultimate freedom from her unhappy marriage. In “The Unicorn In The Garden”, the story tells about the marriage couple that gets really tired of each other through their unhappy marriage. A man awakes his wife to tell her there is a unicorn in the garden, eating the flowers and he tries to tell her twice. Without getting up to look out the window, the woman talks to her husband as if he is a crazy, insane because she thinks that the unicorn is not real. After the man returns to the garden, the wife-with “a gloat in her eye” –calls the police and a psychiatrist hopefully they will get the husband away from her, which is very clearly what she wants, by telling them what her husband said to her about the “mythical unicorn” in the garden. But the surprised ending appears when the husband denies saying seeing mythical beast as a unicorn; so then the police lock up the wife, which is clearly what he wants. It is not clear weather the man planed his doing but at the end he reaches his goal. He gets rid of his wife. The wife is not inte...