Tianyou Pu
Instructor Lloyd
English 111
09 July 2015
Assignment: Writing Project 2
Rhetorical Analysis of the Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin is one of American most important writer in 19th century. Her short story, the Story of an Hour, was published in 1894, which became a definitely boutique work. At that time, both law and society background curbed women’s rights, such as voting rights and possibilities to have jobs. In today’s society, the word “feminism” has been widely known; yet people, or most men, at that time did not even think about it—they took the their “higher class” for granted. At the beginning of story, Mrs. Mallard, suffered from a heart trouble, was gently told the death of her husband by her sister Josephine. Like Kate described: She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her. There stood...