Essay On The Story Of An Hour

People have their own opinions on life. People have their own feelings when it comes to death. Some people may feel happy about a certain situation but the other people well most people feel sad and grieve a lot when someone that they care about passes away. In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard, Louise, has a heart condition, which means that if she's startled she could die. So, when news comes that her husband's been killed in an accident, her sister, Josephine, had to carefully tell her about the news. In the story of an hour were examining the growth of the character through her atypical reaction to different events in the story that the reader may not expect.
Mrs. Mallard has a different point of view when it come to the death of her husband. Mrs. Mallard is afflicted with a heart problem and if someone had bad news for her then they have to be careful while telling her. When she found out that her husband had passed away she was upset and sad at first because she did not realize that at that time she would be free. She didn’t hate her husband, she said she actually loved him sometimes. When she realized she was free and she wasn’t trapped in her marriage with her husband she was actually happy. She kept repeating “Free! Body and soul free!” Meaning that she was free, she could do what she wanted to do and did not have
Mallard’s death at the end of the story is another unexpected twist. Readers wouldn't expect that she would be the one that actually died at the end of the story. At the beginning of the story she finds out that her husband supposedly passed away. Then to turn out that he did not actually die in the accident. When he opens the door and she sees him, the shock of him being alive killed her. She did not think that she would die because she’s happy and she did not think anything bad because of it. When her sister was saying “you will make yourself ill”, she did not think that she was because of how happy and free she felt on the