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Kate Chopin’s Window of Opportunity for Women
A woman of the 1800’s, her place is found in the home. ... As she happens upon a window and loses herself in the rain, she portrays the sad and ridiculous effects that the tradition of repression has on the women at this time. Kate Chopin uses symbolism to reflect and satirize the restrictions felt by, and consequently the lives lived by women in the South in the 1800’s, in “The Story of an Hour”. ... Mallard is also a women repressed by the social expectations of the time. ... Mallard is the perfect illustration for the repressed women living in the South, of the 1800’s.
Another critical similarity that symbolizes new unrepressed life is a window. ... Mallard looks out the window before she discovers new feelings and life. Conventionally, a window represents the idea of a new beginning, a new opportunity. ... Mallard experiences her first feelings of life after looking through a window. ... Mallard gazes out an “open window” moments before she has her epiphany of freedom and life (Chopin “Hour” 33).
Approximate Word count = 815
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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