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On Hour of the Day
In “The Story of an Hour” is one of Kate Chopin’s best know piece of short fiction. Kate Chopin creates the image of an old and fragile woman that has a weak heart. During the hour that this story takes place in we see that thought the use of symbolisms that everything is not what it seems in the Mallard house. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” the use of symbolisms depicts what is happing inside Mrs. Mallard mind.
From the first line in “The Story of an Hour”, “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband\'s death” (1). We see an old woman that just has a heart problem and that she is in fact just weak and fragile, but thought the use of symbolism we learn that she in fact that her heart condition is her hard life and is wise beyond her years. In her response to hear the bad news of her husbands death she wept and went at once in her sisters arms......

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