Life is too short; therefore, we must learn to live it in the best way. Many times, we deprive ourselves of things we think are not important or we believe that at some point, we will have it, but unfortunately, they never happen. One of those things that we sometimes think we do not need or that is not so important in our lives is freedom. That little word that contains so many meanings and that without it is impossible to have a full and happy life, but that we cannot put into the hands of anyone. We must learn to fight for our freedom for ourselves. "The story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a story that show an hour in the life of Mrs. Louse Mallard a woman who has a dream to be free, but she is worried about the happiness that can have when her husband dies, more that trying to be happy by herself. It a stories that shows us the importance of freedom. In this brief history is present the lack of freedom of Mrs. Mallard, there we can read how she experienced true freedom through the erroneous news of the death of her husband. We …show more content…
Mallard, wanted to find freedom, she felt bound to her marriage, “whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength” (paragraph 8), For her, the fact that her husband had died and did not have to endure it any more, made her happy, because she knew there was nothing and no one who could bend her. “There would be no powerful will bending hers” (Paragraph 14). No one to impose anything on her or to live for her, Mrs. Mallard wanted to live for herself. “She would live for herself.” (Paragraph 14) Although she knew that her husband loved her, only that maybe he thought it was her duty to address Mrs. Mallard in everything she did. Another sample of the feminist and gender criticism of the time, who perhaps thought that just because they were men they had to direct their wives. That is why our main character feels a relief in the death of her husband, because she knows that he will not be there to direct his life and his