“The Story of an Hour” and “A Jury of her Peers”
In the “Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin, a renowned feminist author of the 19th century and “A Jury of her peers” by Susan Glaspell outline views of marriage as an undeserving institution for women. Chopin goes ahead to depict an unusual idea that married women get to enjoy the free world and experience happiness with the passing on of their husbands.
Louise’s husband, Mallard is a fairly caring man for as the author states; his wife had loved him- sometimes. She must have failed to love him sometimes since he had been a bully to her, a real chauvinist. Such judgments about Mallard can be drawn from the context of the story based on the fact that he, like Mr. Wright in Susan Glaspell’s “A jury of her peers”, was a controlling man to his wife.
As Louise suffers from heart disease, her sister Josephine delivers to her the message of her husband’s death with great care, “in broken sentences”, with his husband’s friend Richard near her. This information is verified by the fact that Richard had been in the newspaper office at the time, which the names of the train accident’s victims were released, and Brently Mallard’s name was among them, in fact, it was on top of the list. This information was additionally verified by a second telegram to the office.
Louise wept briefly in the presence of her sister and Richard then isolated herself in her room. There, details relating to nature like quivering trees, twittering sparrows and the smell of coming rain outline her newfound freedom. The open window depicts her stepping into another phase of life and the armchair her strength in being independent. She then falls into a deep state of meditation about how freedom and independence come before love and could be attained by way of tragedy and not mutual understanding between people.
As for the attitude of the narrator