1.“The Story of an Hour” by Kate ChopinStudy Questions1. The story says Mrs. Mallard “had loved him [her husband]–sometimes. Often she did not.” If she was “often” not in love with him, why did she marry him?
-I believe that she married him because she loved her husband when they were married at first. The “often” love thing I believe is something that came from struggles that they endures during the years that they were married.

2. What was life like for Mrs. Mallard in the home of Brently Mallard?
-Although it is not really stated in the story I believe that she was housebound had very little freedom and she lived the lives of the average wife during that time. And I believe her purpose was just to stay home cook clean and wait for her husband to come home from work.

3. In the report of the train accident, Brently Mallard's name was at the top of the list of fatalities (Paragraph 2). Does this information mean that Mallard was an important citizen in his community? Does it also suggest that perhaps Louise married him, in part, because of his standing in the community?
-There is no exact information that Mallard was an important citizen of the community but with his name being in the headlines im assuming that he was a member of the community whom many know. And yes I believe this could be the reason that suggest why Louise married him.

4. Do you believe Brently Mallard mistreated his wife? In answering this question, keep in mind the following: (1) In Paragraph 13, Louise Mallard recalls that Brently was kind and that "he had never looked save with love upon her." (2) However, Paragraph 8 had previously informed the reader that Mrs. Mallard's face "bespoke repression," and Paragraph 14 says Brently had a "powerful will bending her."
-Yes I believe that Brently did in fact mistreat his wife and those examples given are the exact same reasons on why she loved him sometimes and sometimes she did not love her husband.5. How much of Mrs. Mallard's apparent unhappiness in her marriage was her own fault?
-I don’t believe the unhappiness was her fault because this story takes place many years ago which was when women had little to no rights when married to a man and she was under her husbands authority

6. After Mrs. Mallard receives news that her husband died in a train accident, she goes to “her room.” Do these two words mean that she slept separately from her husband? Does the fact that no children are named in the story indeed indicate that she and her husband slept apart?
-I think that she did in fact sleep in a separate room from her husband and I think the fact of her room symbolizes the fact that her and her husband were no together, but not apart either.

7. Research the life of Kate Chopin (1851-1904). Then decide whether the death of her husband in 1882 influenced her when she wrote “The Story of an Hour,” published in 1894 in Vogue magazine.
-I don’t believe the death of her husband in 1882 influenced her to write “the Story of an Hour” because the story of her life and the story of Louise are very different in fact almost total opposites.

8. Did author Chopin herself face problems similar to those of Mrs. Mallard?
-No in fact she had freedom and a very loving and understanding husband.