“The Story Of An Hour” by Kate Chopin is a short story about a woman named Lousie Mallard who is informed of her husband’s death in a train accident. She is filled with grief and sadness but then experiences a sense of freedom when she realizes that she is now free of marriage and its burdens. However all of that would soon vanish as her husband shows up alive and well. This is the aspect of the story that includes all three of what surprised me,what intrigued me and what puzzled me. What surprised me is that the husband was alive after all because the introduction is when the audience first sees that the husband is dead so it was a very shocking plot twist in the end. What puzzled me is why was there false information regarding the husband’s death? How could the people identify that it was for sure him? “He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one” (chopin 19) this quote is also what puzzles me. What was intriguing was the fact that she felt liberation and freedom from her husband’s death. I expected grief and mourn for a long time. But no. She felt free from the domination and controlling of her husband’s part of the marriage.
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