Story of An Hour questions

1. The story says Mrs. Mallard “had loved him [her husband]–sometimes. Often she did not.” If she was “often” not in love with him, why did she marry him?
She married her husband was because maybe he had money or it could have been arranged for her to marry him.
2. What was life like for Mrs. Mallard in the home of Brently Mallard?
Life was not good for Mrs. Mallard because she was not happy. When she found out her husband died she was happy. So it shows that she was not happy when her husband was alive.
3. In the report of the train accident, Brently Mallard's name was at the top of the list of fatalities (Paragraph 2). Does this information mean that Mallard was an important citizen in his community? Does it also suggest that perhaps Louise married him, in part, because of his standing in the community?
I think that part of why Mrs. Mallard married her husband was because of his standing in the community. Mr. Mallard could have been an important man in the community. Maybe it could have been by chance his name was first on the list.
4. Do you believe Brently Mallard mistreated his wife? In answering this question, keep in mind the following: (1) In Paragraph 13, Louise Mallard recalls that Brently was kind and that "he had never looked save with love upon her." (2) However, Paragraph 8 had previously informed the reader that Mrs. Mallard's face "bespoke repression," and Paragraph 14 says Brently had a "powerful will bending her."
Mr. Mallard could have mistreated her because paragraph 14 it said that Brently had “a powerful will bending her.”
5. How much of Mrs. Mallard's apparent unhappiness in her marriage was her own fault?
I don’t think it was Mrs. Mallard’s fault because I think her husband didn’t treat her right.
6. After Mrs. Mallard receives news that her husband died in a train accident, she goes to “her room.” Do these two words mean that she slept separately from her husband? Does the fact that no children are named in the story indeed indicate that she and her husband slept apart?
I don’t think they slept apart but once she found out that Mr. Mallard died, it became her room and her house because she was living on her own now.
7. Research the life of Kate Chopin (1851-1904). Then decide whether the death of her husband in 1882 influenced her when she wrote “The Story of an Hour,” published in 1894 in Vogue magazine.
I think that the death of Katie Chopin’s husband did influence her to write the story. I think it helped her express how she felt through the story.
8. Did author Chopin herself face problems similar to those of Mrs. Mallard?
The author faced problems but not the same problems as Mrs. Mallard.