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The Story of an Hour
by Kate Chopin

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of “killed.” He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.

There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.



"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

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The True Self Versus the Outward Self The New Beginnings of Seasonal Change

Answer 1

The True Self Versus the Outward Self
- "It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing."
- "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance."
- "She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms."
- "When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone."
- "She would have no one follow her."
- "Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul."

The New Beginnings of Seasonal Change
- "She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life."
- "The delicious breath of rain was in the air."
- "In the street below a peddler was crying his wares."
- "The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves."