One Hour of Freedom

One Hour of Freedom "The Story of An Hour," by Kate Chopin, is a story about a woman experiencing true freedom, through the death of her husband. The story deals with the limitations that were forced on women by society in the eighteen hundreds. When Louise found out her husband was dead she felt her life about to begin. She realized that suddenly she was free to live and think for herself. However, her life …

…could never have survived living as a passive and repressed woman again. Her fate was tragic. Still it was better to live one hour of freedom and happiness than to live a lifetime in the domination of her husband. Even if her new life of freedom was only for one hour, it was the time when all her dreams came true and she died knowing that death was the only way to keep her freedom.