kate
one of the feelings that I got while reading Kate Chopin's "story of an hour" was her heart problem and how the news of her husband news could kill her. It is hard not to see something in a bad way able though the death of her husband was hurting to she was capable to control herself from the feeling.
consider her initial reaction to news of the death--does she control her feelings? She does. of course, in the aftermath, "struggle" with emerging feelings and a growing, gradual awareness of "something" coming to her, something that takes her beyond her grief--what is this something? how do we see her struggling to suppress it, and why? Basically, the character has several strong, and conflicting feelings, and certainly as she emerges from her room she is described as having quite intense feelings stemming from an altered state of mind and awareness that sharply contrast with her previous emotional state; details of the story take us on a kind of roller coaster, from intense feelings, to exhaustion, to a gradual coming to her self and intense feelings of a different sort at the end. Read my complete blog post, and closely follow details of the story
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