Question

What social issue does Kate Chopin primarily depict in her story "The Story of an Hour"?

Answer 1

The social problem described by Kate Chopin is the dissatisfaction of many women with their married life, which behind the weak character of a woman is unhappiness, lack of desire to live, low self-esteem, confinement and many other things. In the story of an hour Mrs. Mallard after receiving the news of the death of her husband is surprised, cries, but then invades an inexplicable joy, the only thing he says is free! free! I felt that at last I was going to be able to decide about my own life, I would do many things that until now I could not.

Answer 2

The inner concerns of ordinary women in the nineteenth century