The story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and the poem “The Wife” by Emily Dickinson, both reflects freedom, , independence in women and the unfairness that marriage holds. In the poem, the poet seem to identify how a single women transform herself after marriage, as it seem in “The Story of an Hour” which mentions how free,relieved and excited Louise felt after finding out about her husband’s false death. In the poem says “dropped the plaything of her life to take the honorable work of a woman and of wife” and i believe the meaning behind this quote is that woman get married and become wife,where back in those times they were not free or being under the man’s command. Also in the story there is a quote that says “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself” which means, that now Louise will be living for herself, free and independent and not under a man dominance. I think both the story and the poem echoed because both talks about how woman used not to be free when they got married in the 19th centuries, and how a person could find liberty by it’s couple’s death.
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