Free at Last Love may have the power to control many things. In the article “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin , she gives a few examples of literature of discontent. “The Story of An Hour” is an example of literature of discontent because Mrs. Mallard felt free after her husband “died”. Mrs. Mallard experiences discontent in the end of the article because she finds out that her husband had not died. Therefore, she loses the feeling of freedom and living her own life. Mrs. Mallard had heart trouble and was not in the best position in the beginning of the article. When her sister Josephine told her that her husband died, Mrs. Mallard, “did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with paralyzed inability to accept its
