By the brief introduction of Kate Chopin and her achievement, this paper elaborates the awakening of consciousness of the feminism of the protagonist in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour. In the short story, the author uses many literary elements to describe the characters, especially the irony and imagery. This thesis uses those rhetorical devices to vividly describe the characters and to criticize the inequality between men and women in the late 19th century.[1]
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