Only One Way to Love
...nt of freedom within her writing style through the use of recurring metaphors and symbols, as well as the story line. ate Chopin's "The Story of An Hour" deals realistically with the possibilties of life, individual consciousness and choice, and the serendipity by which so much is acquired and lost that we value. Set in the late 1800's on a southern plantation, "Story's" main character, Louise, faces the news that her husband has died suddenly and the resultant possibilities about the kind of life that she, as an unmarried woman, can now live.Freedom means many things to many people. In The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, freedom is the sum and total of the thematic enterprise. The protagonist's deepest wish is for freedom and Chopin is able to embed both the desire and the attainment of freedom within her writing style through the use of recurring metaphors and symbols, as well as t...