'The Story of an Hour'

The short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin was a very interesting story. I was a bit confused while reading it because at the beginning of the story we as readers all thought that Mr. Mallard has died in an accident, his wife got sad because she thought she lost her husband. She was starting to think about how she was going to live without her husband; she did not know what she was going to do. After she thought about it for a little while she realized that now that her husband is gone she would be able to live her life the way that she wanted to. She no longer had to do things for her husband or because her husband wanted her to, she now could go about her life the way she wanted to and she could do things for herself. This surprised me because most women who lose the person that they love do not immediately think about how they can do whatever they want to, they morn over their loved on being lost for a little while at least. I did not expect her to just be kind of happy that her husband passed so she no longer had to do things the way she wanted to do not the things her husband wanted her to do. Another thing that surprised me while I was reading this story was that she felt so strongly about finding out that her husband was not in the accident after all that she had a heart attack and died. This is kind of ironic because they whole story we thought that Mr. Mallard was the one who died but in the end of the story Mrs. Mallard was the one who had died from her heart being so bad.