A Rebirth and a Death in Kate Chopin?s ?The Story of an Hour? :: essays research papers

Kernels and SatellitesKate Chopins fable, The Story of an Hour is an ironic short story of a wife in the late 1800s. The story is only a few pages long and in doing so Chopin writes a story filled with kernels (events that have all important(p) causal chronological coherence) with very few satellites (events not logically essential to the account action). There were no satellites that I could find bit reading the text I found every word written essential to the narrative, the progression and the conclusion of the story.Freytags Pyramid and FunctionsUpon examining Freytags pyramid, I can see that the narrative does follow this diagrammatic representation of the story structure. From the inciting moment (Mrs. Mallards heart trouble, and Mr. Mallards death) to the climax (Mrs. Mallards proper of a free independent person) to the catastrophe (Mrs. Mallards death) we can follow Freytags design. The most interesting element to the story, following Freytags pyramid, is the thong Chop in surprises us in Mrs. Mallards reaction to her husbands death. The regress is Mrs. Mallards joyful acceptance of his death, her realization of freedom the narrative twists the story to the exact opposite of what the reader was expecting. The reversal of the readers expectation is a much more effective way for Chopin to express her message. The element in the reversal also has the role of a function (an act defined by its significance for the course of action in which it appears). A death would usually be thought of as a tragedy, but once we start to gain insight on Mrs. Mallards character we can see wherefore she responds with the opposite reaction. Another function within the story is the joy that kills it makes sense in this story, but in most you would see an immense joy at Mr. Mallards return, these circumstances would not often see a wife dying from, what I assume is, a miserable shock. Acts and HappeningsOnce examining the story I found an interesting insight on Mrs. Malla rd in terms of acts and happenings the happenings (a change of state not brought about by an agent and manifested in the discourse in the act of happen) are events out of Mrs. Mallards control, and the acts (a change of state brought about by an agent) are Mrs. Mallards emotional realizations and her change of outlook on deportment and death rather than physical actions Mr.