“The Story of an Hour” was written by Katherine O’Flaherty Chopin 1850-1904 who was a keen observer of new orleans culture and made many stories like Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897) and it says that her best known work was The Awakening (1899) which describes the emotional growth of a new orleans wife and mother.
In “The Story of an Hour” there is a women known as Mrs. Mallard who seems to be a widow to her husband's death and shortly after the news of the death of her husband it say in the first sentence that “Mrs. Mallard was Afflicted with a heart trouble” which in other words mean that she has mental bodily pain which means that she is very heartbroken and is grieving over the death of her husband which in paragraph 2 it says that her husband’s friend Richards was in the office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received.
In “The Story of an Hour” there is a women known as Mrs. Mallard who seems to be a widow to her husband's death and shortly after the news of the death of her husband it say in the first sentence that “Mrs. Mallard was Afflicted with a heart trouble” which in other words mean that she has mental bodily pain which means that she is very heartbroken and is grieving over the death of her husband which in paragraph 2 it says that her husband’s friend Richards was in the office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received.