The Story of an Hour

Criticizing (or Praising) the Author An author may never know if their creation will be popular, liked, or just plain forgotten, but they can rely on one simple fact, that no matter what eventually someone is going to read their book and criticize it in one way or another. There are many different ways to criticize a novel, but biographical criticism lets a person look at the author for answers. Biographical criticism acknowledges that novels, …

…her cause in a time when women we not even considered close to the equal of men. This took bravery, but Kate had learned a long time ago what many women still need to find out, that being herself was important, not being chained down by society. Again and again her short story The Story of an Hour demonstrates that marriage may just be holding women back from the true freedom they need, they deserve.