Doma Gurung Discussion 4

As I was reading the writings of this week “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin’s and the poem “The Wife” by Emily Dickinson’s both address the theme of women’s roles and their boundaries in the 19th century.
The theme in the nineteenth century Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Wife” echoed in the story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin in the sense of how women were treated as someone who was expected to meet their husbands needs as the poem reads “She rose to his requirements” (Dickinson). The poem highlights the idea of a woman being nothing but a wife. Similarly Mrs. Mallard in the story “The Story of an Hour” grieves by listening to her husband’s tragic accident she realized that she was now free “She said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!” (Chopin para10). She was filled with excitement and joy for becoming free from being merely a wife”.