The Story of an Hour

This story put together alot of details in a very short essay. It talks of Mrs. Mallards husband's friend Richards finding out about his tragic death in a railway accident. He verified it through two a newspaper office and than assured himself through a second telegram before telling Mrs. Mallard the news. They wanted to tell her the news with great care because of her heart problems. Richards went to the house with her sister Josephine and broke the news to her. She cried and than went upstairs to sit in an armchair, locking the door behind her. She stared out the window into the sky with a glaze over her eyes. She thought about the rest of her life without her husband, living and making her own decisions. Kate Chopin stated, "She saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely." It was hard to tell exactly what she got all the joy from of thinking about her husband not being there. Was it because she felt like a prisoner in her own house? Did she have absolutely no love for him at all? Or was it more deep than that and she was a victim of abuse? In the end Mrs. Mallard comes down out of her room to her Husband opening the door having no clue about the whole accident. Mrs. Mallard died from heart disease. Chopin stated it as,"of joy that kills." I think that Mrs. Mallard was so overwhelmed thinking of living her life for herself that when she seen her husband alive it struck her down and that is what killed her.