Question

Authors seek to shape and reflect society. With which issue would author Kate Chopin most likely identify in "The story of an Hour"?
A. Racial equality
B. Prohibition of alcohol
C. Women's suffrage
D. Teaching of evolution

Answer 1

The answer should be c its all about how the women has freedom now that her husbands gone even doe she dies when she find out he still alive

Answer 2

The correct answer is the issue of (C.) Women's suffrage.

Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" was written in 1894, a time in which women had already started to fight for their rights since the first wave of the feminist movement began in the mid-19th century. By the time Chopin published "The Story of an Hour", despite women's persistence, they had not been granted the right to vote yet.

The story, which has a woman, Louise Mallard, as the main character, focuses on the theme of women's freedom. Moreover, Chopin's short story presents the issue of male dominance during that time by means of the figure of Louise's husband, a dominating man that does not allow the woman to be free. In that way, the writer represents the repression that women had to face during that time, especially due to the fact that they were not allowed to have a voice, not even to vote.