Have you read Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin?

Question

If u have read this story, I could really use your help... I have this paper due and I was having a really hard time understanding what the author is trying to say on this story.
I need to know what was exactly Mrs. Mallard's "heart trouble"? What is the nature of the trouble with her heart? Can you give any examples from the reading?
Whats the thesis of this story?
Anything interesting that I should know about this reading?

Thanks a lot for ur help!

Answer 1

I think the thing was she had a broken heart or something like that not really sure I can't remember everything

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Answer 2

I think that her "heart trouble" was both literal and figurative. In American Lit. class, we had said that she probably had a heart attack at the end, but in the beginning it was evident that she was discontent, only to feel freedom when her husband supposedly died. Chopin wrote a lot of stories about feministic ideas, so you should probably put in something about how Mrs. Mallard somehow felt confined in her life.

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