Story of an Hour

In this story, everyone believes that Mrs. Mallard is fully in love with her husband. They come to tell her of her husband’s death, and are worried of how she will handle the news. She goes into her room and shuts the door; they think that she is depressed. She is actually whispering to herself, “Free, free, free!” (P. 194). I think that she was really excited to finally be her own person and to live her own life.
I think the irony starts out this story, “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble…” (P. 193). They don’t want to tell her the news of her husband’s death for fear it will break her heart. In the end of the story, her husband walks through the door, definitely alive. Mrs. Mallard dies when she sees him alive. She died from “…heart disease – of joy that kills” (P. 194).