Journal 1-20-10

The Story of an Hour is about a woman who just lost her husband in a train wreck. She at first is grieving but when she relises that she is free of her husband's power over her she is happy. She then finds out that her husband really is alive after all but then she dies from her exsisting heart problem and from her loss of freedom. The theme of this story is Man vs. Society. The ways of that time period prevent her from getting a divorce from her husband. She feels tortured by the rules of the time and of what she is considered as every day that her husband is alive. She gets no respect from society because they only see her as a wife to a man. Not anything else. Just a woman who is married to a man and someone that has nothing to do with anything that the men have a say in. Society is killing her and when she gets set free she feels happy and she has gained her freedom. But it is taken from her as quickly as it has came. Society was against women in the 1800's but thankfully they have changed their ways and their views on women.