Summary Of Billy Bibbit's 'Short Story Of An Hour'

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Billy proceeds to go onto his knees pleading to Nurse Ratched to not tell his mother, Billy’s continues to scream no to Nurse Ratched telling his mother what had happened. Forman wants us to see that she had really put Billy into a bad state of mind, by saying that she was the cause for his death because she was going to tell his mother which made reminded him of how ashamed she would be of him so Billy would need to kill himself for in order of his mother not to be ashamed in him. The overall connection can really relate to this scene because of how is escalated so fast over the smallest problem turning to the worst really fast. By this we can see that Billy Bibbit’s death was caused by the situational events prior. If Nurse Ratched had not

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