The Story of an Hour by Kate Choplin was a very ironic story. As the story begins, you can’t help but to feel bad for, Mrs. Mallard. She was introduced as a woman who seems very fragile, and obviously it’s because of her heart problems. In the beginning of the story, the author makes us believe that Mrs. Mallard cares a whole lot about her husband, Brently. The author says that her sister Josephine told the new to her with broken sentences, meaning that she wasn’t sure how to tell her the bad news lightly. When the news was broken to her, she cried in her sisters arms and then made her way to her room, alone. The author speaks about a physical exhaustion that Mrs. Mallard had felt, that reached into her soul. Also how she was just looking out her window, crying similar to a child that had cried itself to sleep. At this point in the story I thought that the story would go on about all the pain she felt or how she would later on deal with the loss. It was very interesting when the author spoke about an intelligent thought that Mrs. Mallard had had because who really thinks in a situation like this. It all became a bit clear when Mrs. Mallard was shouting out free, but was also very ironic. It was very odd because Brently was not sick, he had died in an accident so it couldn’t have been a “My husband was very sick, he’s free from all pain” thing. We later on find out that she herself had been freed from a man who “..had never looked save with love upon her..” It was as if Mrs. Mallard felt relief by his death. When Josephine hears Mrs. Mallard speaking to herself and tells her to stop because it would make her ill, I thought maybe Mrs. Mallard was telling herself these things to console herself, since she did have heart problems. The big twist to the story was when Mrs. Mallard goes downstairs with her sister and we later find out that Mrs. Mallard had actually died of heart disease from joy. Also the fact that her husband Brently had not died.

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