Oppression In The Story Of An Hour

“The Story of an Hour” is falsely displayed as an incredibly sad loss of a husband to a good house wife named Mrs. Mallard whose first name is not important enough to become known. Unfortunately, there is more than one side to Mrs. Mallard and the relationship she has with her husband, Bentley Mallard. When Mrs. Mallard supposedly lost her husband she was brainstorming the possibilities of life after the death of her abusive and controlling husband just to be disappointed by the return of her so called, late husband. The return of her husband kills her and leads her to the destructive nature of thinking that she could never be happy unless her husband is buried six feet below the ground.
Mrs. Mallard did not have it easy through this emotionally
Mallard is pondering her life without her husband. Mrs. Mallard thought of everything differently after the death of her husband. Her emotions brought her from point A to point B when it came to the loss of her love-hate relationship with her husband. She was undeniably happy after taking her time to think over her life. As she came to a conclusion “She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.”(17) Instead of seeing the glass as half empty, Mrs. Mallard saw the glass as half full. Now that she could live for herself, she wanted nothing more than to have a long and prosperous life without a man telling her how to live. When her husband swore her into the life of a house wife and cook, she did not think that there could be a way out of the hell she was in. Mrs. Mallard tells women that it is alright to put up with the nasty nature of men as long as they know that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. Of course though, with Mrs. Mallard’s new and care-free attitude came the overly disappointing ending to the short story. Her husband walked into their home and she had the sudden realization that her freedom theory was, in the end, just a theory; that her chance at a wonderful life had vanished when her husband wasn’t really dead. Though she got her wish of living a short life without her husband, it seems as though her physical being gave her what her emotional being wanted. The true upsetting mood to the story is that, in the end, the husband won. The weakness of Mrs. Mallard’s soul was too much to carry the weight of her husband’s ego and controlling