Grief In Mrs. Mallard's Short Story Of An Hour

Death comes and goes as it pleases, it may bring forth grief or it may leave sorrow in its wake, but sometimes it brings happiness. One thing always remains the same, and that's the uncertainty that consumes us as the curtain closes. As we may suffer from a "joy that kills," or we may be stricken with such an amount of grief that we too plunge into the abyss. When Mrs. Mallard heard of her husband's death she was overwhelmed by shock but then filled with a joyous freedom, only to have it ripped away when her husband walked through that door and sent her plummeting down into death.

Joy may have enveloped Mrs. Mallard over this death as she fantasized over the days to come, but with the opening of that door it was ripped away from her. She was