Mrs. Mallard In The Story Of An Hour

In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin writes of a Mrs. Mallard that has just been told of her husband’s death. When she first hears the news, Mrs. Mallard is saddened and in tears so she locks herself in a room to be alone. Although at first it seems to be so she can be alone in her sorrow, but eventually the reader begins to understand that Mrs. Mallard isn’t distraught or devastated like a normal wife that had just learned that her husband had died, she’s seems pretty indifferent (albeit shocked, but I don’t think distraught).
The narrator later describes a “monstrous joy” that Mrs. Mallard sees. I don’t consider the monstrous joy she sees to be an actual thing (like death/life), but rather the authors way of describing how Mrs. Mallard