Narrator and point of view
Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is told by a third-person narrator. The narrator mostly follows the perspective of Louise Mallard, the main character, after she is told of her husband’s death: “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead”. (p. 107, ll. 8-10).
However, it is later revealed that th...