Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

In Kate Chopin’s reading “The Story of an Hour” she tells a heartbreaking story about a death. The main character Mrs. Mallard had gotten news that her husband had died in a tragic railroad accident. Mrs. Mallard reacted appropriately when she had found out her husband had died. Mrs. Mallard was heartbroken and “pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body” (). The reader learns that she had felt abandonment. She reacted appropriately when she found out that her husband actually didn’t die in the accident. At the end of the story Mrs. Mallards husband she finds out he had been far from the scene of the accident and didn’t even know that it happened. The entire story had been undone and this had sent Mrs. Mallard into a state