In Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour, Mrs.Mallard receives the new that her husband was killed in a train wreck. Mrs. Mallard has been told that she has heart problems, so her sister Josephine is the one who tells her the bad news. The first thing Mrs. Mallard did is wept in her sister's arms. She then went into her room all alone and cries some more as she looks out of her window. The Story of an Hour takes place during the time period that women were controlled by their husbands. Mrs. Mallard comes to her senses and realizes that now that her husband is dead, she can live her own life. Soon after she comes to that realization and is thrilled about the fact that she is now free, her husband who was thought to have been killed in the accident, came home. Mrs. Mallard dies of what the doctor said was overwhelming joy which caused her heart to stop. We as the readers can infer that she dies of not joy but of sadness. …show more content…
In paragraph eleven, Chopin writes “She said it over and over under her breath: free, free, free!” Mrs. Mallard is so excited that she repeats the word “free” over and over again so she can let the reality sink in that she is in fact free. In paragraph eleven, Chopin also writes “Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.” This tells the reader that her husband passing is an amazing, relaxing feeling for Mrs. Mallard. Her sister, Josephine is outside her door telling her to open the door that she is going to make herself ill. The reader knows that Mrs. Mallard was secretly in joy, but the characters were