Can adult females and work forces be their ain individual. Are hubbies and married womans able to be independent and follow their dreams in the establishment of matrimony. Kate Chopin poses this inquiry in her short narrative The Story of an hr. Kate was born in 1851. Her parents were Gallic Cajun, spiritual, and rich slave-owners. With Kate s male parent killed by a train accident, she is raised by her female parent and grandma until she graduates High School from a Catholic Private School. She marries a twosome old ages subsequently to a Louisiana man of affairs. She has many kids and after she is married a little over a decennary her hubby dies. She begins to compose several old ages subsequently and receives countrywide attending about instantly for her fiction. Kate Chopin writes The Story of an Hour to take up issues of equality and individuality in matrimony by utilizing subject and symbolism.

The subject presented in the narrative is one of personal averment. The chief character is presented as Mrs. Mallard in the beginning of the narrative and finally becomes Louise. Louise is presented as an single offprint from her hubby. The message of equality in matrimony is throughout Louise s ideas as she is locked in her room looking out her window. She thinks about her hubby s future funeral, she will likely mourn once more, but she is set free from her hubby s ordinances and powerful sentiments and desires writhing her ain. There would be no powerful will flexing her in the unsighted continuity with which work forces and adult females believe they have a right to enforce a private will upon a fellow animal ( Chopin 734 ) . Chopin shows she is non merely talking on behalf of adult females in matrimony but besides work forces. Chopin expresses through her character Louise, work forces and adult females should esteem one another in matrimony. If a hubby or a married woman requires an act of service from one another, he or she should non pull strings or anticipate his or her partner to make what he or she says no affair what. Chopin provinces through the ideas of Louise, A sort purpose or a barbarous purpose made the act [ flexing person s will to your ain ] seem no less a offense ( 734 ) . Wifes do non necessitate dictators in their matrimony and work forces do non necessitate emotional pestilences in their matrimony. Men and adult females should esteem one another and esteem each other s picks.

Symbolism in the narrative paints a image of freedom, populating life, and make bolding to woolgather. The spring scene with the odor of rain in the air, clouds stacking up merely to expose a few countries of bluish sky depicts to the reader the clouds of heartache are go throughing and the nice yearss are in position. Every individual who has lived remotely long knows after a storm, grey clouds spread and spots of babe blue sky are seen signaling the storm is over. Countless sparrows are peeping on the rooftops stand foring felicity, a unworried behaviour, and freedom to wing where of all time they desire. With the full flock of sparrows garnering together on the rooftops, Chopin is pass oning societal behaviour which speaks to Louise of freedom to piece with other adult females or work forces whenever she wants to. Freedom to take. Sparrows on the roof are in high topographic points, their natural home ground, alternatively of the land, an unnatural home ground. Louise is like a bird caged when her hubby is alive, but every bit shortly as she believes herself a widow she is set free like the birds on the rooftops are free. A individual singing helps to open her restrained bosom and head and demo her how she feels about herself and her life. Song is a powerful force against her will and it overpowers her ain attempts to force back her bomber consciousness. Person vocalizing is the key to let go ofing her subconscious ideas into her witting ideas. The window in Louise s room is the gap to what her life could be. The portal to the hereafter susurrations freedom to her from the other side.

A small over half a century after Kate Chopin died she was rediscovered as a feminist author, composing about issues in front of her clip. Her narrative depicts a negative image of matrimony in the Victorian Age. Chopin s illustration of adult females showing their ain wants, demands, and sentiments are non accepted as moral behaviour for adult females in the 1890 s. Noted by Barbara C. Ewell in her book, Kate Chopin, the editor of a magazine called Century refused to print the short narrative because of the subject of equality for adult females with work forces ( 267 ) . Independence for adult females and the single ideas of adult females were merely imagined in private in society. A adult female was expected to take attention of the house, kids, and unrecorded for her hubby. Because of adult females like Kate Chopin, most adult females have the privilege of equality in matrimony and in society.