Story Of An Hour Analysis

The Story of an Hour

In the beginning of the story we learn that Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble and so her sister Josephine and her friend Richards must break the news carefully to her about her husband’s death. Richards had heard about a railroad disaster when he was at the newspaper office and learned that Mrs. Mallard’s husband Bently was on the top of the list of those who were killed. Mrs. Mallard begins sobbing when Josephine tells her of Bently’s death and goes upstairs to be alone in her room to be alone. While she is up stairs she begins to look out the window and sees trees, a peddler who was trying to sell his wares, she also smelled the rain that was in the air, and she could hear someone singing and the birds singing as well. As she continued to look out the window she noticed the patches of blue sky that was poking through the white puffy clouds, she was sitting in a chair and began to stare off in the distance …show more content…
That’s when she knew that the future years would be by herself. She was actually looking forward to it, because she thought that men and women oppress one each even if it is out of kindness. However, she did love him but she didn’t think that that mattered anymore. Her sister Josephine was at her door telling her to let her in and if she didn’t that she would become ill. Mrs. Mallard replied “go away I’m not making myself ill” when in fact she was drinking in life through the window. When she finally let her sister in they started down the stairs where Richards was waiting, then someone all of a sudden opened the door and there stood Bently Mallard who entered and hadn’t been anywhere near the accident. Josephine started to cry and Richards tried to hide Bently from Mrs. Mallard he couldn’t and when the doctors showed up she died from a heart disease but it was from the overwhelming joy that her husband was alive and