Kate Chopin’s story entitled “The Story of an Hour” is simple yet attackable. The author described each situation and establishment within the whole narrative. Even if the story is short, Chopin incorporates everything to discuss the conflict, the setting, the character, and the resolution that gives its readers a good and proper understanding of the story. The theme of the story is freedom. The main character, Louise Mallard started to free herself from distress and abandonment because of her husband’s death.

In the beginning of the story, she cried after knowing that her husband is dead but soon she realized she was already free from her husband’s shadow. The author used abundant elements and symbolisms to show the life of the room where Louise made her realization. From a simple chair up to the ambiance of the room that made the main character’s twist of feelings become livelier and deeper. “She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her.

A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial (Chopin, 1984). ” Chopin used dramatic terms and words to elaborate the feelings of the main character as it uplifts its personifying essence from paleness to rosiness of her body and mind. The conflict is simple and the resolution is also simple. Realization of truth became Chopin’s way to release the solution of her character’s problem.

It is a defense-mechanism for Louise to create an illusive character after her husband’s death. She does not want to think of pity for her aloneness so she tried to conquer her distress and look at the negative aspect of having her husband at her side. Through this, Kate Chopin has a feminist point of view where women should not be afraid once they were already alone. Men will not always complete them as a woman because there are times when men became their source of weakness and failure.