What surprised me in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is the fact that Louise does not allow herself to be free as a woman even after the announcement of her husband’s death. She resists this awareness by apprehending with fear. But the death of her husband opened her eyes and made her realize many things that she would probably never have discovered if he were still alive.From the moment she accepts the death of her husband, her character evolves and she then allows herself to recognize her freedom, the fear she felt is transformed into excitement and even begins to consider her future where her freedom belongs to her completely. The end of this story completely blew me away because the irony was at its height after the doctors believed that she “died of heart disease – of a joy that kills”. For me this shock was not due to the fact that her husband was alive but rather the fear of losing her freedom which had just been regained.
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