Woman Who Lived in a Lie of Her Loved

Woman Who Lived in a Lie of Her Loved

In Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”

Every story has the character to make it powerful and interesting to read because through the character the author can represent the verbal representation of human being. In this text, entitled “the story of an hour” written by Chopin, this story has four characters. The characters that appear in the story are Mrs. Mallard, Mr. Brently Mallard, Mrs. Mallard’s sister (Josephine) and Richard as Mr. Brently Mallard’s friend. Although in the story mentions four characters, but just two characters that often emerge such as Mrs. Mallard and Josephine.

In this story there is some types of od characters revisited, the first is protagonist. Protagonist sometimes refers to the angel character but actually protagonist means the main character. In this story that is written in 1894, the protagonist character is Mrs. Mallard because she is the first actor. It is shown from the story told about Mrs. Mallard heart problem with her husband. In case of this type, it is not complete if there is no the antagonist character, so in this story the opposing actor of Mrs. Mallard is Josephine.

All characters in the text have different characterization, for example Mrs. Mallard is a kind and patient person. It can be drawn in the story (tenth line) and the sentence “There was a dull stare in her eyes” that shows she feel stressful when she lived with her husband without love. Thus, Josephine is head-strong person because she told to Mrs. Mallard (her sister) the broken sentence.

Besides that, the explanatory characterization is used in this story to present the characters. It uses in the text because in some extent the narrator telling and describing the characterizations of the characters. It can be shown from the characterization of Mrs. Mallard, the narrator describes her as “she was young, with a fair, calm face ...” (see eighth paragraph).

The characters in this text more complex or as round character for instance, the character of Mrs. Mallard she has difference feature, it means a long she married with her husband she often has not love her husband, then she lived in a lie of her love (the related statement see fifteenth paragraph).