In “The Story of An Hour” Mrs.Mallard had heart problems. She soon finds out that her husband had been killed in a railroad disaster. When someone passes away it’s always hard to hear, because you never want to believe it. It says She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. This tells me that she truly loved her husband, and the life she knew know was going to change drastically. Obviously their marriage wasn’t abusive, or horribly bad.Mrs. Mallard the goes into her room this is where we begin to see events of emotion.When she first sits down she is hollowed out. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. She is beginning to realize that her mind …show more content…
Kate Chopin then writes: When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free”. She begins to realize that one of the outcomes of her husband’s death is that she gets to live for herself instead of living for him. Back then men were looked at for having all the power and that we looked up to them. Mrs.Mallard was living for her husband and not for herself. Now that her husband is gone she can be free. She doesn’t have to worry about him telling her what to do or what she says. The more that she thinks about it the more she enjoys it. She is out of someone authority. She finally comes out of her room and it says she carried herself like a goddess of victory. When loosing someone we often try to get away from other people. After grieving for so long, we try to come brace our self for what is to come next. We try to pull ourselves together like nothing ever happened. By her walking down the stairs she preparing herself for all the good things that are yet to come. Someone had opened the door and there stood her husband. Mrs.Mallard dies shortly after his