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Podcast: The Stream Panther
Episode: The Story of an Hour (Extended)|Kate Chopin | Feat. Willie D Davis IV |Jessica Weinberg| Ajay Tambe
Description: Most Controversial by American standards of the 1890s😲
. a short exploration of marriage and repression in America
In 1890's. In “The Story of an Hour,” independence is a forbidden pleasure that can be imagined only privately. “The Story of an Hour.” Now, over a century later, the story remains one of Kate Chopin’s most well-known works and continues to shed light on the internal struggle of women who have been denied autonomy. The forbidden joy disappears as quickly as it came, but the taste of it is enough to kill her.
Women who worked while they were married or pregnant were...