“The Story of an Hour” After reading the tale I felt like I went on a very strange emotional rollercoaster. As I was reading I thought I knew how this story was going to end, but it did not end exactly how I thought it would, instead it decided to take an unexpected turn. Within the first sentence it tells you on how she was not well, “…Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble…” (Kirszner). Then at the end of the sentence tells the reader that her husband had just died which foreshadows on how the story will end. After reading that first sentence I thought Mrs. Mallard was going to die of a broken heart since she was going to find out that he husband just passed on. Once Mrs. Mallard was told of her husband death she reacted how most