English- Short Story Analysis

Valenzuela Instructor English 101 17 September 2012 Discovering an Identity Self-deliberation arises quicker during the stresses of alivenessspan. Breaking fore by means of these stresses comes from the realization that granting immunity is obtained by means of the willingness to get a tonic world, leaving behind the past. Mrs. mallard comes in contact with the experience itself, as she receives intelligence information of her conserves oddment, Brently Mallard, in an accident. Grieving this discommode she encloses herself inside the room of her home, knowing no virtuoso will follow behind her.Left alone, she embarks on a reflection of her past, realizing the breakage that lies behind her and willingly go forth to accept the future that lies frontwards, foreshadowing the cleverness of the identity she longs to discover. In the short tarradiddle, The Story of An hour by Kate Chopin, the symbolism of the windowpanepanes run intos uphold the idea that personal liber ty constructs ultimate recreation with an identity. Through the use of symbolism, the window was seen to be an count on of the possibilities beyond the life she had as a signified of sinlessdom conveyed the very willpower that allowed for her to find an identity.Alone the window has a signifi apprisece of presenting possibilities to the speaker. there stood, facing the window, a comfortable, roomy armchair (299). Noticing the emphasis of the window being in front of the chair shows a possible passing water from the truth the speaker just witnessed. Being invited by a comfortable chair to look by dint of the window only emphasizes more to the purpose that this crystalize of reflection is needed, and that through this escape she will tactile sensation the freedom at once when she odours alone with herself to wonder.Beyond the window reveals a preview of the life that would complete the image of the life that Mrs. Mallard seeks to obtain. She could see in the disperse squa re before her house the tops of the trees that were aquiver with the new rebound life. The delicious breath of come down was in the air (299). As Mrs. Mallard spies through the window- the at large(p) square- she witnesses the liveliness of spring. Analyzing the context of spring, the idea of reincarnation drives through the mind of the speaker, however the connotation of spring can be analyzed much further.Spring can be seen as the liveliness of youth much(prenominal) as the possibilities of exploring sexual freedom as she experiences the metempsychosis after the loss of her husband. Rain also holds connotations that point towards the ideas of rebirth through this, Mrs. Mallard smelling the scents of rain reveals a sort of spiritual cleansing, as she reacts towards the death of her husband and reflecting upon it. Because the window presents these images of, symbolically, reliving life, Mrs.Mallard experiences and sees the possibilities that face her in front of time. This ex perience for the speaker then suddenly becomes more than just a reflection of the recent news, scarcely a presentation- done by the window- for her to view the life beyond the closed door and susp repeal herself within the world she never had beyond the married life of her husband. With the presentation of her possibilities for a future, she senses the freedom that lives within her. There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully she matte up it, spook out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that make full the air (300). Feeling the window open up into her world, she senses that something beyond the clouds beseeches her to welcome them into her life. This sort of monstrous rejoicing as described later in the text- demands a welcome from Mrs. Mallard as an initiation towards the revitalization of her new world.Though she fears the unknown object that she describes, she was striving to stand by it spinal column wit h her will- as powerless as her 2 white sl nullifyer hands (300), realizing her weakness small-arm fighting back the possession of the unknown entity, she shows a lack of true interest to fight back knowing that she must submit to the future that lies in the lead of her. Through the experience of coming forth and have the fear of moving on, she seeks the freedom presented by the window. Ultimately, a sign of an identity in the end shows her happiness through the imagination of the days that lie ahead of her. Spring days, summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she eyeshot with a shudder that life might be long (300). Discovering her days are meant to be lived without the misdemeanour from her husband, she senses that although her life was once the depression of her day, now became the nitty-gritty of her identity. Living through this ideology, she feels that she can move on through wh atever her life brings forth to her, because she would feel as though all was meant to be attached to her.She brought this thinking forward even in the end when the surprise of finding her husband unharmed from the accident, which in the end killed her. When the doctors came they said she had died of bosom disease- of joy that kills (301). The heart disease that had her worried for her life in the counterbalance of the short story then became the relief that she felt when she left the world to pursue the joy without her husband intruding on her sudden realization of an identity.Heart disease, in the context, reveals itself as the joy that kills emphasizing the discovery of her freedom through the disease that she feared would kill her. Noticing that the identity for herself lie within the freedom that she obtained from her husband, she died to achieve this ultimate stillness with the identity she found. Through the use of the symbolism that the images of the window present to Mr s. Mallard, a sense of personal freedom constructs the idealness of obtaining an identity. And in this short story, The Story of An Hour, The uncovering represents itself through the most peculiar ways.Mrs. Mallard through the story discovered her life was to be relived through the images of the window as they revealed the possibilities that brought forth her true identity. Henceforth, discovering in the end that her husband never allowed her freedom within the labor union by being alive brought forth her breakthrough Revealing itself through the joys of being set free in death, she is brought to the haven she so desperately desired, developing to be the individual that lives or, in this case, dies without the handcuffed life she lived through with her marriage to Brently Mallard.