Story Of An Hour Analysis

The story of “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard deals with a conflict. Her conflict was that Brently Mallard her husband had died in a ‘railroad disaster”. However, Mrs. Mallard didn’t deal with it the way most women would have dealt with it. When Mrs. Mallard found out about her husband’s death she grieved for a little bit “she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms”. Soon after that she was done with grieving all Mrs. Mallard wanted solitude. “She went away to her room alone”. While in her room she sat there “motionless” in the cushion chair. She sat there and she in gazed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. “it was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.” Then

All the sudden she was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her”. “When she abandoned herself a little whispered words escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!” She started to feel joy; even though, “she knew she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death”. However, she saw beyond her husband’s death. Instead she was thinking of how she is going to have “possession of self-assertion, which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of being!” She kept whispering, “free! Body and soul free!” Mrs. Mallard thought she was now free because she would have her own life to control and do what she desires. Furthermore, she would not have her husband controlling her life. “Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days and all sorts of days that would be her own.” She wanted to live a a long and happy life with