The Story of An Hour

In The Story of An Hour the main character Mrs. Mallard is told about her husband’s death. Her husband died in a train accident. Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards had to break the news to her even though they knew she had a heart problem. The story says that Mrs. Mallard was “young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength”. After hearing about her husband’s death, she locked herself in her room and would not let anyone in. She was happy that her husband had died. Miss. Mallard kept whispering “free, free, free”. Josephine was outside her room insisting that she opens the door. Josephine said that she will make herself ill if she did not open the door. Miss. Mallard didn’t open the door, she noticed the things outside her window, things that someone notices when they are happy like the spring days, and summer days . She thinks about the days she would have a head of her by herself without her husband. Miss. Mallard decided to open the door and go down stairs. As she was going down the stairs someone was opening the front door. It was her husband who walked through the door. He was amazed at Josephine’s cry. Mr. Mallard was far from the accident, and did not know there was an accident. When Mrs. Mallard saw her husband she died. The doctors said that the cause of her death was because of a heart disease.