"Story of an Hour"

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The paper provides a psychological analysis of "Story of an Hour" in conjunction with Freud's psychological theories and his categorization of human self. The paper discusses Freud's view that the self is composed of three parts and just looking at the tip of the iceberg can never reveal a person's whole personality. The paper shows how these ideas can be applied to the character of Mrs. Mallard.

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"When applied to Kate Chopin's story 'Story of an hour', we notice that this happens to be very true in the case of Mrs. Mallard. Louise is a nineteenth century married woman who has just learned of her husband's possible demise in an accident. Instead of crying, she asks to be left alone and goes to her room to reflect. Everyone around her feels that this news has disturbed her a lot and thus she has retreated to her to mourn in solitude. This was the projection of her ego. This was the part of the self that she had become accustomed to showing to the world."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Other Stories, ed. Pamela Knights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

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