how does author Kate Chopin portray nineteenth century viewpoints on marriage in her depiction of the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Mallard? Consider the following elements and each one’s role in helping develop this impression:

Explanation:

the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, a young woman named Louise Mallard hears of the death of her husband in a train accident. Her first impulse is to weep, and then she goes to her upstairs room alone. She sits in an armchair observing a lovely spring day and realizes that her primary emotion is one of relief that she is now free of her marriage. From this time forward, she will be able to make her own decisions and live life as she sees fit, without her husband's

powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.

When Mrs. Mallard finds out that there was a mistake and her husband is still alive, she dies of a heart attack.

The view of marriage presented in this story is an unhappy one. At the same time, it seems to be the normal state of the marriage condition for the time in which Chopin writes. In the late nineteenth century, when the story was written and...

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