"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, is a short story that introduces an unusual aspect of a relationship. Mrs. Louise Mallard is troubled with heart problems and is rather thrilled when she finds out her husband, Brently Mallard, has died from a train accident. When she learns that her husband is in fact still alive, all the excitement disappears and the news literally kills her, by a heart attack. Since “The Story of an Hour” was written in the late eighteen hundred’s, this story could represent what marriage was really like in that time: depressing rather than loving and true. It is obvious that Mrs. Mallard did not care for her husband too much. When she learns of her husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard discovers that now, she …show more content…
There is some type of love here when the narrator says, “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.” (paragraph 11). Brently seemed like a good man/husband to Louise, nor did she dislike him. Like mentioned earlier, she loved her husband, and he loved her but, the thought of being a free woman was more appealing to her. Her freedom is what she lost when marrying. I don’t necessarily think that their relationship was toxic but, there’s obviously more of a reason as to why she was so thrilled to hear her husband had passed. But, this story is more focused on the happiness of Mrs. Mallard and the thought of finally becoming “free, free, free!” (paragraph 10). She’s thinking that she’s once and for all being able to live for herself and no one else, becoming a new, free, happy woman. All of that is ripped away from her when she sees Mr. Mallard at the door, leaving her heartbroken from all the wonderful days that could’ve been to just herself, resulting to her having a heart attack from the shock, and