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Kate Chopin

Would you give up life, just be happy? What's more important being happy or living in depression? Through out "The Story of an Hour" Chopin uses precise wording and how she setup the theme and the conflict within the plot. This story's setting is not really that important. We assume that it takes place in Chopin's native state Louisiana. Most of the story takes place at Mrs. Mallard's home over the course of an hour. A good portion of the story takes place in her room sitting in her armchair in front of the window. The theme I derived is that Chopin was trying to say that if your are made free but than you have to go back to being regulated than that is worth dying for.
First, Chopin uses two flat characters and one round character to show the irony of being free than back to being regulated. In the first opening lines all of the characters are introduced. Mrs. Mallard, the protagonist and the story's only round character, will undergo significant change as the story continues.......


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