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A Study on Feminism of The Story of an Hour Abstract: Kate Chopin is one of American’s most important women writers of the 19th century.Kate Chopin explores feminine selfhood in a patriarchal society through the heroine’s spiritual journey to freedom in “The Story of an Hour.” In this story, Chopin presents us with a picture of a complicated and complex development of Louise Mallard’s spiritual awakening triggered by the false news of her husband’s death in a train accident.Background: In the 19th century, legal, religious and traditional practices strict restrictions on women, especially Southern women’s rights.They could not vote, cannot make their voices heard in the political sphere;most of the work refused to hire female staff, the majority of women can only perform household chores;proportion of educated women is far lower than that of men.Ethical, Southern women are more bound and repreed.Feminism on The Story of an Hour: “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone.She would have no one follow her.”(para 3)From this part, we can see that women supposed to be weak and unable to handle emotional attacks.Women without husband was considered miserable by conventions.In the story, men supposed to be the controller of life, while women could not take of themselves without men.Yes, Mrs.Mallard had something common with the other women in that society.However, she had something that’s now and fresh.After grieving for her husband, Mrs.Mallard felt a strong sense of freedom: “Free, Free, body and soul.” It’s a feeling that covered in her heart before her husband’s death.The room and the fence could easily tell us about what Mrs.Mallard’s true character was.She was someone who wanted freedom.She was a married woman who wanted a life without too much limitation.She cleared her head up, and started to thinking about the new life in a better way.She could not help herself from thinking of her own freedom instead of thinking about the bad side of the death.She was completely overthrown by the joy she imaged.She wanted to do something different without her husband around.And the heroine must know her feeling was not qualified in that society.So she was waving the beautiful feature alone.No one could poibly get her in that time.What an ironic theme that her husband came back and knew nothing!Brently Mallard came back without any damage.Louise died because of “heart disease——of joy that kills”.How dramatic!One just planed her bright future and God immediately take over it.Whether it was Louise’s weakne that failed her or it was losing of belief that killed her? I think she had both.From this dramatic death of Mrs.Mallard, it is reasonable to think that feminism was not so strong in that age.The common convention could kill women’s freedom very easy.Mrs.Mallard did not think about how to fight for her own freedom.Marriage seemed the dead end of women’s freedom.Conclusion: From this short story, we can understand that women barely had freedom in 19th century in US.Even though they had the thought about wanting free, they did not know how to get it.For women, they were acceories to men.Women seemed very vulnerable in people’s mind.Finally, they realized the idea of freedom, but it ended unsuspected.The ending is not funny at all, it’s a tragedy.Mrs.Mallard was just having a nice dream.It’s brutal.The short story speaks out the awarene of feminism.