Names: Justin Jones, Kendall Okoroigwe, Adarius Gallow,

Enara Roohullah

Date: 10/14/21

Period: 8th
Unit 1: Short Fiction
https://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/wf_rose.html

Directions: Read the instructions and complete the activity about the story.

Activity 1
1. Read each section about Mrs. Mallard in the story, “The Story of an Hour” in the chart below.
2. Within each box, find the quote in the text and explain how each section of the story reveals
additional information about Mrs. Mallard (characterization).

Section in Quote Explanation of Quote

Story
Hearing the “She did not hear the story as many When Mrs. Mallard found out that
News
women have heard the same, with a her husband had passed away in an

paralyzed inability to accept its accident, she was grieving at once

significance. She wept at once, with instead of going through a stage of

sudden, wild abandonment, in her denial like most go through.

sister’s arms. When the storm of

grief had spent itself, she went away

to her room alone. She would have

no one follow her.” (Chopin 9-12)

Holding Back “Now her bosom rose and fell Mrs. Mallard feels overcome with

tumultuously. She was beginning to complex emotions, unsure of how to

recognize this thing that was process the death of her husband.

approaching to possess her, and Nothing surprises her more than

she was striving to beat it back with when the prevailing emotion turns

her will—as powerless as her two out to be joy—as the pure

 white slender hands would have excitement of opening a new

been. chapter in her life outweighs

everything else.
When she abandoned herself, a little

whispered word escaped her slightly

parted lips. She said it over and over

under her breath: “free, free, free!”

The vacant stare and the look of

terror that had followed it went from

her eyes. They stayed keen and

bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the

coursing blood warmed and relaxed

every inch of her body.

She did not stop to ask if it were or

were not a monstrous joy that held

her. A clear and exalted perception

enabled her to dismiss the

suggestion as trivial.” (Chopin 32-40)

Letting Go “Her fancy was running riot along After Mrs. Mallard found out that her

those days ahead of her. Spring husband passed and came to terms

days, and summer days, and all with it, she seems to become more

sorts of days that would be her own. aware about her surroundings and

She breathed a quick prayer that life life outside of her house. She prays

might be long. It was only yesterday and hopes that her life will be

longer, hinting that she wants to

 she had thought with a shudder that enjoy what life outside her house

life might be long.” (Chopin 59-61) has to offer, after being cooped up

for so long.

The Revelation “He stood amazed at Josephine’s When Mrs. Mallard found out that

piercing cry; at Richards’ quick her husband is actually alive and

motion to screen him from the view had not passed away in the

of his wife.” accident, she had a heart attack and

passed away on the spot. Her sister

went into shock and Richard

shielded Mrs. Mallard’s husband

from the view of her passed away on

the floor. Everyone thought that she

had passed from “a joy that kills” but

in actuality, she passed from the

shock and anguish of seeing her

husband again when she thought

she was finally free.

Activity 2
1. Read the short story entitled, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner. Answer questions
1-9.
2. List specific details (physical descriptions, daily manner of living, etc.) from the text that
indicate the setting.
3. Then, write a brief explanation of the details of setting in the section pertaining to that
detail, including textual evidence.
4. Place your poster paper around the classroom (see class period section) and conduct a
gallery walk.
5. Return to your seat and draw conclusions about the meaning of setting on sticky notes
(at least 4 bullets). Be prepared to discuss.
 Specific Quotes - (Details Explanation of Quotes Connect details from the
Details about Setting) Details about Setting story to draw
from the story conclusions about
about Setting meaning of setting
Everything in the description The details of the house
Physical of the house interior is meant being unkept and uncared
descriptions to convey the sheer extent to for add on to the eerie
that indicate “They were admitted which the home has been feeling that the house
the setting - 1 by the old Negro into a neglected—the furniture is gives both the characters
dim hall from which a cracking and saturated with and the reader.
stairway mounted into dust.
still more shadow. It
smelled of dust and
disuse—a close, dank
smell. The Negro led
them into the parlor. It
was furnished in heavy,
leather-covered
furniture. When the
Negro opened the
blinds of one window,
they could see that the
leather was cracked;
and when they sat
down, a faint dust rose
sluggishly about their
thighs, spinning with
slow motes in the
single sun-ray.”

Physical Emily’s house, inherited from The physical deterioration

descriptions “It was a big, squarish her father, embodies the old of the home represents
that indicate frame house that had status that she intends to the deterioration of the era
the setting - 2 once been white, protect while living there. Emily is from. While the
decorated with cupolas Indeed, it’s large, and styled rest of the street is
according to a once replaced by new ideas,
and spires and scrolled
contemporary time, but now people, and architecture,
balconies in the heavily it has become an old, rotting, Emily’s home slowly
lightsome style of the artifact of a bygone era, like breaks down, along with
seventies, set on what other elements of this her antiquated ideals.
had once been our southern county.
most select street. But
garages and cotton gins
had encroached and
obliterated even the
august names of that
neighborhood; only
Miss Emily's house
 was left, lifting its
stubborn and
coquettish decay above
the cotton wagons and
the gasoline pumps-an
eyesore among
eyesores.”

Daily Manner of Emily’s father’s death

Living that The effect her father’s death impacts Emily’s setting.
indicate the has on Emily becomes Emily rarely left her house
setting - 3 apparent in this detail about after the passing of her
“So she vanquished her behavior afterwards as father and the
[the city officials], her transformation into a cold abandonment of her
horse and foot, just as recluse is recounted here. sweetheart.
she had vanquished
their fathers thirty
years before about the
smell.
That was two years
after her father's death
and a short time after
her sweetheart--the
one we believed would
marry her --had
deserted her. After her
father's death she
went out very little;
after her sweetheart
went away, people
hardly saw her at all.”

Daily Manner of Emily becomes a gothic Emily’s new attitude after

Living that Each December we aging fixture of the county, her father’s passing in part
indicate the sent her a tax notice, much like the house itself represents the aging of
setting - 4 which would be during this time. She is the philosophy of the Old
returned by the post passed down onto the South, as her isolation
townspeople like the house keeps her from
office a week later,
was passed down to her all progressing culturally and
unclaimed. Now and those years ago. Though she economically.
then we would see her seems more unmoving than
in one of the a dead hermit, business runs
downstairs windows-- like clockwork around her,
she had evidently shut and she still got tax notices
up the top floor of the to rebut after all this time.
 house--like the carven
torso of an idol in a
niche, looking or not
looking at us, we could
never tell which. Thus
she passed from
generation to
generation--dear,
inescapable,
impervious, tranquil,
and perverse.

What is another This is the climax of the

example of text The violence of The kinetic power of the door story, the grand
that indicate breaking down the breaking down is described conclusion. It begins
the setting - 5 door seemed to fill this as it rocks the entire room. violently and immediately
room with pervading The age of the room is brings on the strongest
immediately apparent, both presentation of the dark
dust. A thin, acrid pall
from the sheer quantity of mood of the story
as of the tomb seemed dust and the acrid smell of presented so far. We’ve
to lie everywhere upon the room. finally seen Emily’s
this room decked and skeletons in her closet, or
furnished as for a rather, the corpse in her
bridal: upon the room.
valance curtains of
faded rose color, upon
the rose-shaded lights,
upon the dressing
table, upon the delicate
array of crystal and the
man's toilet things
backed with tarnished
silver, silver so
tarnished that the
monogram was
obscured.