The Story of an Hour

In The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin's use of symbolism helps develop insight into Louise Mallard's mindset.
Upon word of Brently Mallard's death, Louise Mallard finds that the best way to cope with her husband's unexpected death is to have some time alone in her room. Chopin describes two very important features of the room. There is a "comfortable, roomy armchair" and a large open window.
The narrator's use of several adjectives to describe the chair, such as "comfortable" and the fact that she sunk into it helps render the reader with a feeling of warmth and love, and as though her problems seems to have disappeared.
Through the large open window Louise is able to observe nature which proves to be very symbolic. She describes the sky as having "patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met ...