Similes In The Story Of An Hour

“Richards was too late… she died of a heart disease-- of joy that kills.” “The Story of an Hour”, by Kate Chopin, is about a married woman with a frail heart, who found freedom after her husband’s death, but died due to the shock of seeing her “thought to be dead” husband. In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin uses optimistic imagery to state that freedom is a spark that becomes a flame to those who are binded by darkness as her main idea. She is able to convey this main idea to the readers through metaphors and similes that correlates with freedom.
Chopin states her main idea by using optimistic metaphor about the taste of freedom from a woman, whose husband was thought to be dead. In the story, the narrator says, “she was drinking in a very