The Story of an Hour is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard who finds out a tragic accident that killed her husband. Evidently Mr. Mallard was not killed; he was far from the scene of the accident and was not involved with the accident. At the end of the story Mrs. Mallard is the one that passes away. She passes away from being so happy thinking that her husbands’ death set her free.
As Mrs. Mallard sobs about the tragic news many thoughts run through her head. At the moment she is sad but all of a sudden she begins to feel a relief and uplift from her husbands death. As I was reading the story many thoughts ran through my head, I thought to myself why does Mrs. Mallard feel so free from her husbands’ death? Did Mr. Mallard abuse her, was he obsessive, did Mrs. Mallard love him anymore or maybe she didn’t find him attractive anymore. In the story Mrs. Mallard expresses her love as an unsolved mystery. An unsolved mystery is a situation that can be solved but it will take a long time or it will never be solved. In Mrs. Mallard situation she felt that trying to fix her love Mr. Mallard could not be help. Mrs. Mallard couldn’t figure out if she really loved him Mr. Mallard