Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

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A woman loses her husband and is not that broken up about it and that broke people up about it.

Banned

  • Scandalous by the people of the time (1890s) because the woman is not upset, even exhilarated, by the death of her husband.

Sources

Chopin, Kate. "Story of an Hour." A Vocation and a Voice. Penguin Books. 1991.

Clark, Pamela. "Biography." KateChopin.org. 2018. Retrieved Febrary 11, 2018 from https://www.katechopin.org/biography/

More, Lois. "Story Time for Grown-Ups: "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin." New York Public Library. 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2018 from https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/18/storytime-grownups-kate-chopin-story-hour

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