Events That Occur In The Story Of An Hour

In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," there is a series of events that happen within an hour that ultimately leads to the death of a woman named Mrs. Mallard. From the title of the story, I thought what any other person would think, a series of events take place that happens within an hour. The story starts with Mrs. Mallard getting news that her husband has just been in a train crash. He has passed away. She is very sad, so she goes to her room to cry. While Mrs. Mallard is in her room, her thoughts take a 180-degree turn. Mrs. Mallard realizes that she is finally free from her husband's oppression. The narrator says that Mrs. Mallard gets overcome by an extreme feeling of freedom, so much so that she starts whispering the word “free” (Pg. 278) over and over again. She looks forward to the freedom that she is going to …show more content…
Mallard. Mrs. Mallard is a very unusual woman. She gets possessed by the feeling of freedom. In her room, she happily declares “free! Body and soul free” (Pg. 279) I personally don't know anybody who has been possessed by anything before, so this seems strange to me. In Mrs. Mallard's defense, I would probably go crazy too if I was being oppressed by my husband for as long as she has been. We really don't know much about Mr. Mallard. However, we do know that he loved his wife, but he didn't know that she felt so restricted by him. There are two characters that play minor roles in this story. Mrs. Mallard's sister Josephine is the one that breaks the news to Mrs. Mallard that her husband had just died. We know that Josephine is a caring woman because she waits outside Mrs. Mallard's room while she cries. The other minor character is named Richards. He is Mr. Mallard's friend. Richards is the one that found out that Mr. Mallard had died because he works at the newspaper office. Other than that we don't really know about