“Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin – Character

A dynamic lawsuit is a major character in a calculate of fiction that encounters conflict and is changed by it. In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, the emotional pattern and thought process of Louise Mallard after she is informed of her preserves death ar explored. Over the course of the hour in which the story takes place Louise has a realization about the constraints she feels in her life and in her marriage. By delineating Louise as a flat and dynamic character, Chopin is able to convey her theme that real remedydom is found in death.Over the course of the story, all the characters are left as fairly flat and undeveloped. Louise is simply described as a young woman with a fair, clam face whose lines bespoke repression and up to now a certain strength (paragraph 8) and that was suffering from a heart condition. When the death of her husband, Brently, is revealed her immediate reaction was that of despair. After weeping suddenly with wild abandonment, Louise retreated to h er mode in order to collapse in solitude (paragraph 3 and 4). The tragic realization and emotional exhaustion eventually leads Louise to a realization of freedom.By whispering free, free, free (paragraph 11) under her breath and not over thinking the feeling she had, Louise was able to embrace the joy with open arms she discovered in her newfound freedom. Although she knew that she would be torn apart at the sight of the face that had never looked save with love upon her (paragraph 12) as a corpse, Louise welcomed the oncoming years spent in obedience to her own desires. This shift in position on death motivates Louise to realize that Brentlys death should not be dwelled on with sorrow. Motivation is a decent reason for a character to act the way they do.Louises motivation for living a liberated life comes through the open window. Through nature, Chopin provides Louise with purpose. For example, plot of ground being described, the upstairs room is left with the simplistic depic tion that it has only a single roomy armchair. When her husband is no longer there to characterise her potential, the house, which was once her cage, finally opens up to the outside world. With the breath of rain in the air and the tree tops bursting with life (paragraph four), Louise begins her journey to her conclusion.Even though the visualization of nature, Louise is suitable enough to grasp that her love for Brently could not compare to the possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being (paragraph fifteen). Soon enough she had intimately forgotten her departed lover and was drinking in an elixir of life through that open window (paragraph eighteen). After the inhalation of submission, Louise carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory (paragraph twenty) down the stairs.In doing so, the once emotionally unstable and physically ailed woman with white slender hands (paragraph ten) was able to prepare for a life without dexterity or restrictions. The outgrowth of Louise only seized due to her preexisting medical condition claiming her life. However this motivation is what caused Louise to act in the ways she did and refined the theme. The development of character in The Story of an Hour is left stagnant. Having a flat main character allows the subscriber to identify with the story on a level of perceptiveness separate from that of any round character.Although the reader is inserted into Louises mind, an entirely understood background for her is missing. In doing so a void is made in which the reader can implant themselves into the characters shoes to further comprehend the exact emotions of Louise during the hour. This further expands the understanding of theme because as Louise remains in scarecrow of the window with her arms spread welcoming the years to come, since she is left lacking in detail, the reader can jump into her place they can shed crying with her or drink the elixir of life wi th her.The theme that death is the ultimate release from constraint is understood in the story due to Chopins development of Louise as a flat and dynamic character. While companionship and love are significantly important aspects of life, Chopin was able to demonstrate that Louise was ecstatic only when she cognize the new way she could live her life. After all, the Greek historian Thucydides once said, the secret of happiness is freedom. Works Cited Kennedy, XJ and Dana Gioia. Literature, An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing. Seventh edition. Boston Pearson, 2010. Print.