Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" - Conflict, Theme, Realism

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• conflict (the central struggle between two opposing forces in a literary work)
• theme (the central message of a work of literature, often expressed as a general statement about life)

Question 2

the underlined passage from paragraph 10 of “the story of an hour” is saying that

Answer 2

it is a crime for men and women to blindly, persistently bend the will of others

Question 3

words like tumultuously, striving, powerless, and escaped in paragraph 9 of kate chopin’s “the story of an hour” show

Answer 3

conflict

Question 4

as reflected in paragraphs 5 and 14, one of the aspects of realism that pervades “the story of an hour” is

Answer 4

that nature (spring) persists – whether people are sad or happy, alive or dead

Question 5

one of the themes in “the story of an hour” is death. in the course of the story, which characters must accept the death of someone close to them?

Answer 5

Richards, Josephine, Mrs. Mallard, Mr. Mallard

Question 6

what was the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Mallard in “the story of an hour”?

Answer 6

they had loved each other, but there was also some repression in their relationship