Story of an hour

     The story starts with a man and woman talking about who should tell Ms.Mallard that her husband had died. After they told Ms.Mallard that her husband had died Ms.Mallard cried in front of her relatives but she did not make a huge scene. Then she went to her room and started to feel happy which I think were her real emotions. In the room Ms.Mallard kept on telling herself she was free. After a while alone in the bedroom she goes outside with her sister and goes to the living room where she saw her husband and hot a heart attack and died. The husband had said that he was not on the train. In the "story of an hour" by Kate Chopin their are many mixed emotions. The main character -Ms.Mallard- shows that their are many mixed emotions about something you have to be sad about.

        Ms.Mallard has a heart problem which shows that one little bad news could affect her problem and make her problem more dangerous which can cause her to die. "knowing that Ms.Mallard has afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (p.594). Ms.Mallard's sister knew would could have happened to her if she told something bad. "It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences: relied hints that revealed in half concealing"(pg.594). This shows that Ms.Mallard cN take anything differently as others and might be taught weird to some other people.

        Ms. Mallard doesn't take the news so harshly as everyone but she did not show it in front of people. Ms. Mallard at first took It as supposed to, "she wept at once with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms" (pg.504). After she cries she went to to her room alone then just relaxed, " there stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank..." This proves that Ms. Mallard did not take the news so harshly because is she would have she would had had a pain in the heart. And Ms. Mallard just acted sad in front of people but then acted how she felt when she was in her own.

      While being alone Ms.Mallard expresses how she really feels. Ms. Mallard feels relaxed and relieved and thinks everything is relaxing. "the delicious breath of rain was in the air" also "the notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twiterring in the eaves". This shows that Ms. Mallard was relaxed after the horrible news she had heard about her husband's death. "she sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up in to her throat and  shock her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in it's dreams"(pg.595). This shows that Ms. Mallard had felt really sad about the news she heard about her husband's death but now she is over it. This part confuses me because it shows that Ms. Mallard is happy and sad at the same time.

      Ms. Mallard felt free after she let all her sadness out. Ms. Mallard said under her breath      "free, free, free!". This shows that Ms. Mallard felt trapped in her marriage and she was happy now that she could have her life back and it wouldn't be controlled by anyone she would control her own life.

      After Ms. Mallard let's all her true feeling out in the bedroom she goes outside to the living room where she finds her husband alive and causes her to die. In the book it shows that Ms. Mallard died of happiness because she sees her husband. Mr. Mallard's explanation about what really had happened was that he was not on the train that had crashed.

        In my opinion I don't think Ms. Mallard died of happiness of seeing her husband but if safeness, I think she died of sadness because in the entire story it shows that she was happy that her husband was dead. Also I think that Ms. Mallard cried in front of her family to not show she was greedy and that she did not love her husband because at that time women had to get married to have somewhere to live and eat.