Story of a "life" lived in an hour
Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour" is one of those short fictions which serves you a very simple appetizer, a little delicate main course and an absolutely fancy and sophisticated dessert. as you start reading, the husband of a woman, addressed as Mrs. Mallard in the story, dies. Her surroundings are worrying how to give her such a news. She is a patient of a heart disease, how will she take this news. And happens so. She hears the news, she cries out loud like mad. This was your appetizer. Lets get to the delicacy of main course. She gets up, walks away, locks herself in her room; the story takes a whole new turn. She starts feeling like she has a burden off her head, she keeps enchanting "Free! Free!". Totally opposite of what she reacted few moments before when she was in front of other people. Hold tight, its just getting interesting. Not only she feels free, she feels guilty for feeling free. What is that about? I think, Chopin's very effortlessly paint...