I had to pay special attention to certain words in context in order to understand their meanings. It was rather frustrating seeing words that have entirely different meanings because of changes in language usage over the span of 100 years. The language itself though is more eloquent and romanticized, at least according to my perceptive. Additionally, I was engaged by the descriptions of scenes in the text, in our society today descriptions as vivid as those from “The Story of an Hour” are not appreciated to the extent they should be. In today’s world we can see clear images on a screen, but it has become a rarity to be able to create something so vivid with words. Because films began around this time it makes sense that written descriptions were so elaborate, reading was found more during these times. People did not have television for entertainment.