Story of an Hour (not graded as a journal)

In “Story of an Hour,” by Kate Choplin, I think that Mrs. Mallard is sad about the news of her husband’s death, but I also feel that she is relieved that he is gone and she has time to herself now. The two people that were there to tell her the bad news, was her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richard. These two people wanted to be there to tell her because they knew of her heart trouble and wanted to break it to her as gently as possible. But little did they know that she wasn’t all that sad that her husband was dead.
I believe in paragraph five, Mrs. Mallard is sensing everything new to her life. Life was freshened up to a point for her. The sentence, “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life,” was meaning that she could finally breath fresh air with her new life as a widow.
In paragraph seven, the “suspension of intelligent thought,” meant that she was planning her future without her husband. Although her sister was worried for her as she was laying their motionless, Mrs. Mallard was planning the life of hers to come without her husband. She would be alone for years to come, making her open her arms and spread them out to welcome these years to come. While Mrs. Mallard was in her room she kept saying to herself, “Free! Body and Soul Free!” She was stating that she was free from her husband and that she was ready for her new life to begin.
When Richard and Josephine are morning the death of Mr. Brently Mallard, he was opening the front door with a latch key. By the shocking surprise of her husband walking through the door, she dies of a marriage that had no love. She was going to be stuck with him the rest of her life that killed her instantly, with “joy that kills.”