The Story of an Hour

In “The Story of An Hour” Mrs. Mallard didn’t quite know how to take the news of her husband’s death. It was very sudden, thus she had a lot of thoughts running through her head. She wasn’t sure what the future years would bring without her husband there by her side. She wasn’t even sure whether she had ever actually loved the man. Although she was both curious and surprised, also somewhat disturbed of his death, that wasn’t actually the case. “When the storm of grief had spent itself” she isolated herself alone in her room and wondered what would become of her now, that she is alone. She wondered what it would be like to be free, since she only loved him sometimes. She also needed to be alone to sort out her feelings. Soon her wild thoughts diminished as her loved ones wondered if she was okay. Finally they managed to extract her from the room. Then her husband walked through the door. Her heart failure was something that could have made them closer, but in fact only drove them further apart.