One can imagine the struggles women went through during the nineteenth century having no choice but to be married, widowed, or worse. Consequently, Kate Chopin's theme in “The Story of an Hour” in the book Backpack Literature: An Introduction of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing may have expressed one of the many aspects that women struggled with in that period in an alternating, omniscient point of view. To put it lightly, marriage being one of those struggles in history makes us wonder if marriage is not for everyone. Through the author's diction, it will be clear that Mrs. Louise Mallard, being the protagonist, struggles with the antagonist, which is the institution of marriage, and realizes that she could defeat the enemy and free herself, but the institution being there ultimately kills the protagonist. Learning that Louise had a heart problem and then finding out that her husband died. Chopin's symbolism of how Louise felt was “When the storm of grief had calmed down, she went to her room alone. She would not want anyone to follow her” (Chopin 169). So, this shows her comfort in confined spaces to relax her troubled heart, but she didn't want to go to see her husband and mourn his death. Furthermore, her husband's death was not enough to kill her of heartbreak due to her condition. In the end, Louise not wanting company in her room proves that what she strives for has not been found in its entirety. The turning point in his true feelings about his marriage has come to fruition. This overwhelming feeling took hold of Louise, and the author wrote: "She was beginning to recognize this thing that was coming to possess her, and was trying to push it away with h...... middle of paper.... .. sense of freedom. The pain of her husband's death has passed. At this point, she is finished and wants to continue with this new strong vision of life after marriage. All this even if the wording at the end implies that the doctor believes she is dead for the joy of seeing her husband alive, which was too much for her heart, yet all the eloquence that the narrator expresses through the protagonist suggests that she died for the reintroduction of marital boundaries when she found her husband still alive situational irony gives the reader the idea that it might come from the joy of a union, but that it is not always what it seems. Louise Mallard was a dynamic and rounded character; she transforms emotionally throughout the story, but in the end the his change was permanent. Even though he could have gotten that freedom from his prisons, but maybe not in the right way, he wanted his freedom.