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Date Submitted: 03/02/2013 01:05 PM
A Story of an Hour
What is literature? Many people have different views on what literature exactly consists of, but the most common definition from the dictionary is written work. Literature is a way for an author to take the reader through their story from their imagination. This paper will show just how it is to live through someone’s imaginary life. The poem A Story of an Hour demonstrates a journey of an hour in Mrs. Mallard’s life.
The poem A Story of an Hour really caught my attention. The author wrote the poem, and made the poem as a story, that was magnificent. The way the author used many descriptive words made the reader feel as if they were there in the story and made it easier for the reader to feel emotions with the type of tone used in the story. There is such suspense in the story as well that keeps the reader at the edge of their seat.
The analytical approach I decided to use was the reader-response. This approach makes it so you can be biased on your opinion of the writing, but at the same time can also have some feelings towards the writing. It also allows the reader to make connections and reflecting on them. “Reader-response criticism encompasses various approaches to literature that explore and seek to explain the diversity (and often divergence) of readers' responses to literary works” (Lin, 2000) I also decided to use this approach because I thought this approach was most descriptive and the poem needs that so it can be interpreted.
The women in the story: A story of an Hour goes through such an emotional journey. It is clearly shown in the story that Mrs. Mallard faces some challenges with the way she feels. Her emotional journey brings the reader through grief and despair to guilt ridden happiness. When Mrs. Mallard first hears of her husband’s death she is overcome with sadness. “With a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms” (Chopin,...