Mrs. Mallard In The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

“The story of an Hour” is one of my favorite story. In the whole story, the author Kate Chopin focused on Mrs. Mallard reaction and behavior after she got the news her husband was dead from her sister. The characters in this story were so lively and I read it many times, every time I got new ideas and thoughts after I read this story. And I list my ideas and thoughts as follows.

At first, the most interesting thing in this story is that the reaction about Mrs. Mallard when she got the news that her husband was dead from her sister Josephine. Her reaction was not as usually as other people thought. We can get the idea that others thought that she could not accept the news that her husband was dead. To most readers surprise, she did not
Mallard mood changed when she went away to her room alone. As I said before, all the readers may think that she was in great sad, but actually her mood changed, her thought what her life would be after her husband was dead and she felt a kind of freedom in her head. I think we can get this idea from these sentences in the story. For example: "When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.(Kate Chopin, 1894) " Based on these sentences, we can conclude that Mrs. Mallard when she was faced with the natural world that is full of vitality, she initially filled with fear, and then infinite joy waiting for free time. In my opinion, she may be suffer a lot from her husband and did not have have freedom when she lived together with her husband in that society, maybe this is a common phenomenon in that society. That is to say, the women at that time did not have enough
Mallard dead when she saw her husband still alive. When she faced with the unexpected her husband‟s return, her emotions changed suddenly. Many of us may guess that she was too excited or no more freedom in future ? Because at first, when Mrs. Mallard went out her room, and felt free both body and soul(Kate Chopin, 1894)", and at the end of the story, "her husband Brently Mallard entered the room, who was still alive and composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella (Kate Chopin, 1894)." Based on these sentences, we can concluded that Mrs. Mallard also felt disappointed and fear that future that not free. From my perspective of view, Mrs. Mallard died from suddenly emotions change. One reason is that, her husband stand a front of her, this is a big surprise for her, the other reason is that she hoped to get freedom and her mind thought return to before that there was less freedom in her