The story of an hour by Kate Chopin, starts with Mrs. Mallard receiving the news of her husband's death. Her reaction to the news is very different from that of other women. From her behavior, one can assume that Mrs. Mallard feels liberated by her husband's death. It seems as if her husband didn’t allow her to live and enjoy her life because she had a heart condition. She knew her husband loved her and that he had her best intention at heart, but he lived her life for her; so when she got the news of his death she felt free.
Mrs. Millard felt a little resentment towards her husband because he made her feel like a slave to her own heart condition. Mrs. Millard was being kept alive by her husband living a life that she didn’t want to live.
At the end of the story, her husband comes home and we find out that he’s not dead. Mrs. Mallard however dies. The doctor says she died of “joys that kills’. I feel like it is ironic how the one thing her husband was trying to protect her from ends up killing her.
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