A Simple Heart is the story of Felicite, a simple French maid with a seemingly bottomless capacity for giving and bestowing love and kindness. While people around her continually exploit and belittle her for her simple ways and lack of education, Felicite does not succumb to negative feelings. Instead she carries on with her life as a maid and nanny, eventually dying of old age and virtually unnoticed by her employers or her charges.
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin represents a negative view of marriage by presenting the reader with a woman who is clearly overjoyed that her husband has died This is expressed through the language in by Kate Chopin used to describe Louises emotions as she oscillates between numbness and extreme joy at her newfound freedom The narrator of The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin relates what she observes in simple prose but when her emotions are described the words are vibrant and powerful This