The theme of Emily Dickinson’s “The Wife” relates to the emotional state of “The Story Of An Hour” because they both take place during a time period where women didn’t have the same rights as men and overall highlights the unhappiness that women during this period felt for example in “The Wife Emily Dickinson states
She rose to his requirement, dropped
The playthings of her life
To take the honorable work
Of woman and of wife.
While in The Story Of An Hour the women loses her husband (falling into the sea) but after she is finished crying she comes to the realization that she’s free (“Develops pearl and weed”,) these stories overall highlight how women felt at the time when it came to being at the behest of their husbands and not having being happy about their life or freedom until their husband passes away then they will be able to be free.
