Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

Of the four short stories that we read I found that the story that resonated with me the most would be “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. I found it very interesting that the story all took place in an hour, mainly because it is rather action packed, with multiple deaths and plenty of details. It shocks me to think about how Mrs. Louise Mallard was planning her life without her husband without any confirmation that he had died except for the word of her husbands friend who had heard of the accident from a newspaper office. If it were me who had lost someone I had loved so suddenly I doubt that I would think about how I was ”free” after their death. Though Mrs.Mallard didn't always love her husband or didn't know if she did love him, I understand that at the time she would have been fine with finally being on her own without having to have a man take constant care of her. …show more content…
Mallard died at the denouement of the story, but I believed it was due to a broken heart and not from the “the joy that kills”. Even though Mrs. Mallard herself realizes that she hardly ever loved her husband, I still believe that she did love her husband, which is what caused her to die at the end and that she didn't die from the shock that she wouldn't be able to have the life that she had just dreamed about. That being said, it is very rational that she did in fact die from a heart disease and the overwhelming mix of emotions she felt tipped her hearts beating capacity out of a range that it could function at which cause her to