Compare And Contrast The Storm And The Story Of An Hour

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The Story of an Hour is about a fateful railroad accident that left Mr. Mallard and many others dead. A friend of Mallard named Richards, who works in the newspaper office, rushes to his home where he and Mr. Mallard's sister-in-law Josephine delicately informs Mrs. Mallard of her husband's unfortunate death. Mrs. Mallard, a weak hearted and frail widow, weeps suddenly before going to sit alone in her room. By a widow sitting in an armchair, she looks at the allurement of the outside world. She is sobbing softly, with a calm but strong face. She duly stares into the sky waiting for revelation. She has the realization that she is now free. All anguish leaves her but she becomes anxious. She welcomes both mourning over her loving husband and years of freedom. She plans a life …show more content…
In The Story of an Hour Mrs. Mallard shows her unhappiness in the line “Free, free, free!” when she begins to feel relieved that she is again a single woman. And then again when she says “Yet she had loved him---sometimes. Often she had not.” This implies that she loved him less than she the times she did not.
In The Storm Calixtia is married to a man named Bobinot and she has a son named Bibi. Calixta shows her unhappiness by having an affair with Alcee. She does not show remorse towards her husband afterwards because she acts as if nothing happened while he was away. When Alcee sent his wife the letter telling her to stay on her vacation for as long as she pleased, it foreshadowed that the romance may continue.
Even though this may be true, there is a touch of feminism on both stories. In The Story of an Hour Mrs. Mallard began to see how her future, without a husband who was in control of her, looked like. She seemed happy about this new found freedom. And in The Storm Calixta’s affair was very different for her time. It was rare for a woman to be as fleshy as she had