Fiction Text
Title: The Story of An Hour
Author: Kate Chopin
Source:
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/webtexts/hour/Date of Publication: 1894
Fiction Prose Analysis:
Discoveries are not always easily understood and sometimes evoke feelings of grief which cause conflict between those loved and close to our hearts. Frosts poem Home Burial tells the story of a couple whose babe has died, and the husband is finding it difficult to communicate with his wife as a result of their different ways of dealing with sorrow, his masculine and hers feminine. Similarly, in Kate Chopins novella the Story of an Hour the protagonist experience woe over hearing the death of her husband, but her emotions seem ironic as she suddenly discovers a freedom that only a broken marriage can create.
The type of discovery experienced in the poem is and emotional and physical discovery which is sudden and unexpected. Louise, the protagonist, discovers that her husband is dead and having just got over it, when she suddenly realises he isnt. It is a two stage discovery, proving that discoveries can be false, and they can be confronting and provocative, however intensely meaningful, leading to new worlds and values. This enabled her to speculate about future possibilities. Her reaction to the news can be shown in the quote when the storm of grief had spent itself she went to her room alone. She would have no one follow her. The metaphor storm of grief emphasises her independent personality and feminine spirit, leading to her needing time to get over the sadness alone.
I don't think the connection between "storm of grief" and a feminine spirit is really clear here, I don't really see how one emphasises the other. Maybe work on making this link clearer 
This is further emphasised in the next line Into this armchair she sunk, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul. Again it is the metaphor that proves her desperately emotional situation, describing her exhaustion as pressing and haunting her body, and seems to reach into her soul. This demonstrates that she cant escape from her fatigue, just as she cant escape from the news of her husband.
Likewise, the type of discovery experienced in the narrative is an emotional one, and leading to new worlds and values the family has discovered that though they have lost all their material things but they still have each other and the love that they share. The story links with the poem in the way that amidst the overwhelming grief they have discovered something beautiful. The quote Three foggy mornings and one rainy day/ will rot the best birch fence a man can build. Exposes his masculine emotions, showing the brevity of life. It is a meaningful analogy, representing his grief, as opposed to the feminine emotions of the woman where her statement is a banal, useless thing to say. Her mindset is further defined in the quote No, from the time when one is sick to death,/ one is alone, he dies more alone, meaning we get over death far too quickly
In this sentence, look for a technique in the text to analyse so you can strengthen this claim 
. She is finding it difficult to understand his train of thoughts, where he appears not to understand, but really he is bottling up his emotions inside, as typical of his gender.
I wouldn't say this is typical of his gender, but instead typical of the contextual constraints of masculinity. The repetition of the pronoun You emphasises her tone of accusation as she displays her anger as a way of hiding her intense feelings of heartache. He fixed his chin between his fists showing how he was being aggressive and stubborn as a way of retaliating to her accusations of his character.
Ultimately, these two texts emphasise how discoveries are not always positive, however they can be in two stages and therefore eventually leading to new worlds and values.
I think the analysis in this one is stronger than the last, there's a more direct link between quote, technique, analysis. Try and avoid saying "the quote" when you can, it just jars a little bit.574 words
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