mrs.mallard of the story of ho

THE STORY OF AN HOUR Louise Mallard, in hearing the news of her husband’s tragic death then subsequent revelation of its fallacy, finds herself quickly moving from grief, through a sense of newfound freedom, and finally into the despair of the loss of that freedom. After learning of her husband’s death in a railroad disaster, Mrs. Mallard sinks into a deep state of grief, as one would be expected to do upon receiving …showed first 75 words of 529 total…

…showed last 75 words of 529 total…returns, as he had every day, her dream is shattered. She can never again be the woman he had married. It is better to not live at all than to go on as she realizes she had been living. Her weak heart simply stops beating; Louise is dead in an instant. The doctors say “she had died of heart disease -- of joy that kills.” As she slips into death, Louise once again is free.