The theme in the nineteenth century Emily Dickinson’s poem” The wife echoed in “The story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin” related to women’s roles and expectations in the late nine -teeth century about the knowledge of marriage. They share similar themes and perspectives on the subject. In “Wife”, Emily Dickinson views of the marriage where particular roles that women were expected to be fulfill. The poem shows the loss of personal identity that happened when a woman becomes a wife ,Emily states “She rose to his requirement ,dropped the play things of her life”. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin also explores the theme on the restrictions of marriage on women .The story about Louise Mallard a woman who receives news of her husband’s death but unexpectedly finds a sense of freeing and release in the thought of being a widow .Kate story focus on the growth and discovery when those constraints are removed as she state “Free ,free ,free!”(L,14) it was as though she catch a break.
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I agree with the main topic of the reason these two stories are echoes. It is about womans roles and positions in society and how they can provide care and self care for both positive and negative reasons. In “The Story of An Hour”, the wife never loved her husband and she felt relieved after having the thought of being the widow when her husband passed. In “The Story” the wife gives up all her personal life and identity just for her husband which is very sweet of her.