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Entry #1: "The Story of an Hour" - Kate Chopin (1894)

Question #7:

                The last line of the story: “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills.” In what way is this an ironic statement? What is gained by having the doctors make such a statement rather than putting it in the mouths of Josephine or Richards?

A.      I believe this statement is ironic because her relief and happiness came after learning about her husband’s sudden death. The unexpected death of Mr. Mallard, although emotionally impacted her at first, it made Louise feel liberated, and enthused about the promise of an enjoyable life. Contrary to what I assume she had experienced prior to hearing the fatal new, Mrs. Mallard quickly developed an appetite for life which the author made evident when using figures of speech in the passage that follows, for instance…

“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 someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.”

With this imagery, the author tells me that Mrs. Mallard found herself awake, with all her senses aware of her surroundings, and ready to move on the very same day she learned about what turned out to be her husband false death news, ironic indeed.

By having the doctors make this statement, the author accomplishes to depict the views of a male society of the time, which refused to assume responsibility for the pain and suffering they caused their female companion, masking it instead with what seems to me a scornful language for their family circles, which only kept and still keeps women felling oppressed.

Question #8:

                What view of marriage does the story present? The story was published in 1894; does it only represent attitudes toward marriage in the nineteenth century, or could it equally apply to attitudes about marriage today?

A.      Right in the middle of the American Women Rights Movement, I feel the story presents a negative, but true to the time view of marriage where in most cases the woman is mistreated, oppressed, and even abused (physically and emotionally) due to many reasons, the lack of appreciation for her hard work at raising the very same men who later go out to marry, and mistreat their new wives just as their fathers did with their mothers. Perhaps men’s fear of losing their mate once they are educated and self-assured, which makes them much more attractive to other men, if we look at it from a psychologically perspective… the possibilities are endless.

 Today, women do have the right to work in the same industries as men, earn close if not the same salary as men, have the right to go to school, vote, come and go as they please, but unfortunately many are still victims of the same type of physical and emotional abuse others suffered 100 years ago.  

Today, the institution of marriage suffers for these reasons, as well as for the fact that young ladies are raised to not accept the treatment described above, which I think is great, but many times strive to be so strong and protective of themselves, investing their emotions far less in relationships that is almost impossible for a man to break that virtual wall down, in order to “sweep them of their feet.”

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Entry #16 - Grant's Farm, MO

Grant's Farm gets its name from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, who owned and farmed 80 acres of the land alongside a number of slaves he owned in the 1850s after receiving it as a wedding gift from his father-law Frederick Dent who acquire the land in 1821. August Busch of Anheuser-Busch later purchased the land in 1903, where he developed it into a country estate, bringing deer, horses and cattle to the land. Grant's Farm, still owned and operated by Anheuser-Busch, Inc.,

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Entry #15 - The Larimore House Plantation

 Back in 1850 Wilson Larimore purchased approximately 2,000 acres which he farmed using the  new mechanical farming equipment of the time). Soon, the Larimore Plantation became renowned for its productivity and won many awards at the then popular agricultural fairs in and around St. Louis. The pre-civil war house was finished in 1858. The Larimores owned the plantation in St. Louis for 50 years. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Penningroth family purchased the plantation, sold off most of the land, and used it for a summer home for almost 100 years. In 1989, Saint Louis County put the house on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1996, the site was named a Landmark and Preservation Area by Saint Louis County.

In addition, this house is historically relevant because I was married there, marking the beginning of a new era for men my generation, and across national frontiers.

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