Story Of An Hour Analysis

“The story of an hour” is a tale of love, death and acceptance. The kind of love people search for is seeing someone’s flaws and accepting them and not wanting to be with anybody else at the end of the day. Even though she had to take care of him a lot and couldn’t live her life for her, she loved Mr. Mallard dearly. When she heard the news of her beloved husband “She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dream.”
Death happens to everyone, it’s the one thing in life that you can’t escape. In a way, it is unexpected, but you know that it is going to come. Mrs. Mallard knew that one day her beloved husband was going to die, what she did not know was that it was going to be as soon as it was. All this time it was about the sadness that Mrs. Mallard was feeling about her husband dying, and then …show more content…
Mallard had heart trouble; it was something that she had to accept, just like the death of, her husband, Brently Mallard. It states that even though her husband was gone “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself.” It was going to be hard for her and she knew that “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.” Acceptance was a hard thing to overcome; after all it was the last stage of grief and the hardest one to become. It was hard for Mrs. Mallard to accept the fact that she would not see the love of her life again, except at the funeral and that was going to be harder for her because of the fact that at the funeral it was going to be clear that Brently Mallard was gone. When her friend sister Josephine told her what happened “she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept the