The Believable "The Story of an Hour"

Casamento 1

Bernadette Casamento
English 102
Dr. Byrd Gibbens
September 27, 2003

The believable “The Story of an Hour"

Through the process of Chopin's writing, the characters and their behavior were made believable. There are women in my own family with the kind of marriage that Louise Mallard seemed to have. I have sat and listened to relatives tell stories about how “when they were young” or “when I got married” how marriage was a different institution, in the early 1900s to the 1960s, than it is now. My maternal grandmother was married in 1915; by 1932 her children were getting married. There were 16 children in all. When they married, they married for life no matter what. There were marriages of convenience, arrangement, necessity, and sometimes-love. These marriages even though convenient, didn’t have a lot of passion or happiness. Marriage was more of a job than a relationship between two people who wanted to spend the rest of their lives together. ...