Question 3

Read the following quotation from "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin.

"Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long."

How does Mrs. Mallard's reaction to her husband's death illustrate an important idea that runs through many of Chopin's writings?

It Illustrates the idea of strong women.

It illustrates the idea that happiness is transient.

It illustrates the idea of fleeting sadness after death.

It illustrates the idea of joy that comes after sorrow.

It Illustrates the idea of strong women.

Explanation:

The way that Mrs Mallard's reaction to her husband's death illustrate an important idea that runs through many of Kate Choplin's writings is that it It Illustrates the idea of strong women.

After Mrs. Mallard learns of her husband's death, she is sad and grieves but only for a while, after which she realizes she is free from the burden of marriage and subservience to her husband.

In many of her (Chopin) novels, she is known to emphasize the strength of women while also opposing patriachy. Below is an excerpt from the book "The Story of an Hour":

"She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome"