Outline Story of an Hour

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of marriage ❖

Outline

Introduction: Background material Outside text example Theme in general terms (Central message excluding the story) Thesis statement

Body 1:

Topic Sentence: Throughout the novel, Kate Chopin implies both situational and dramatic irony to show the theme of women being oppressed in a marriage.

Irony: Situational and dramatic irony and how it develops the theme of women being oppressed in a marriage.

● “She said it over and over under the breath: ‘free, free, free!" (124) ● “When the doctors came, they said she had died of heart disease—of the joy that kills." (125)

Body 2:

Topic Sentence: Chopin employs imagery mostly connected to the weather to demonstrate and develop her theme of a women feeling oppressed in a marriage.

Imagery:

● “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares.The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.” ● “When the storm of grief has spent itself she went away to her room alone”

Body 3:

Topic Sentence: Kate Chopin also used symbolism through the symbols of the chair and the window to develop the theme of women’s oppression in a marriage.

Symbolism: ● ‘comfortable, roomy armchair.’ (!23) ● “Facing the open window” (123)