![]() ![]() ![]() Mallard, a woman suffering from a heart condition, is told that her husband has been killed in a train accident. ![]() This questioning though humorous attitude is strongly evident in one of Chopin’s most anthologized and best-known tales, “The Story of an Hour” (1894). This arrangement works very well for some time, but finally each of the two succumbs to jealousy in spite of this blemish in their relationship, Chopin’s humorous tone manages to poke fun at traditional attitudes toward marriage as well. In the second story, Eleanor Gail and Charles Faraday enter into a marriage based on reason and equality and pursue their individual careers in separate places. In the first story, the heroine Paula Von Stoltz rejects an offer of marriage in order to begin a successful career as a concert pianist because music is the true sole passion of her life it is an act that anticipates the actions of Edna Pontellier in The Awakening. Chopin’s desire and hope for female independence can be seen in two of her earliest stories, “Wiser Than a God” and “A Point at Issue!” (both 1889). ![]()
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