Please answer the following questions in short paragraphs of about seven to twelve sentences each.<\/p>\n
1. Discuss three symbols in this story. Be sure to discuss what you think they stand for.<\/p>\n
2. What do you think that Kate Chopin means when she writes of the \u201cjoy that kills\u201d ?<\/p>\n
3. Do you feel empathy for Mr. Mallard? Why or why not?<\/p>\n
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The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin<\/span><\/p>\n Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break<\/p>\n to her as gently as possible the news of her husband\u2019s death.<\/p>\n It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in<\/p>\n half concealing. Her husband\u2019s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been<\/p>\n in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently<\/p>\n Mallard\u2019s name leading the list of \u201ckilled.\u201d He had only taken the time to assure himself of its<\/p>\n truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in<\/p>\n bearing the sad message.<\/p>\n She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to<\/p>\n accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister\u2019s arms.<\/p>\n When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no<\/p>\n one follow her.<\/p>\n There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank,<\/p>\n pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.<\/p>\n She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with<\/p>\n the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was<\/p>\n crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly,<\/p>\n and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.<\/p>\n There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and<\/p>\n piled one above the other in the west facing her window.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please answer the following questions in short paragraphs of about seven to twelve sentences each. 1. Discuss three symbols in this story. Be sure to discuss what you think they stand for. 2. What do you think that Kate Chopin Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}