Strange Reaction
First of all, when someone dies that you love, or even just know from down the street, you are sad. I am pretty sure that most people would be in agreement with me. This is not how Mrs. Mallard felt when she found out her husband was dead. Well at first she did ill give her a little bit of credit, but after she begins to think on the fact that her husband is dead she begins to laugh! I mean you kind of have to be a strange person to laugh after you just found out that you one and only husband is gone forever.
Secondly, the author Kate Chopin gives us no evidence at all that maybe the marriage wasn't going so well or the husband possibly hit his wife. I, as a reader just assumes that something bad was going on in the marriage because of the way that Mrs. Mallard responded to the news. I think the author leaves out that part of the story so that the readers mind can imagine what was going own and come up with there own opinion.
Thirdly, I was so shocked when I read the end of the story I didn't even know what to think. Mrs. Mallard finds out her husband was not dead. I mean to me this would be a time of rejoicing and happiness, but not for Louise. When her husband walks into their home alive she falls over dead when she sees him. The doctors said that she died of heart disease of joy that kills. Now that's one of the strangest heart diseases I have ever heard of. But anyway I want to believe that she really was happy to see him but it just shocked her so much that he wasn't dead that she died.
This story was very strange and sad for me. At the end of the story I really didn't even know how to respond i was in such shock. This story leaves the reader guessing and making their own assumptions of what was truly going on between this couple.
Roberts, Edgar V. "The Story of an Hour." Literature: an Introduction to Reading and Writing. New York: Longman, 2009. 331-32. Print.
I agree with you about this story being strange and most of all shocking. I had never read of a story similar to this one before. When Mrs. Mallard finds out that her husband is dead she gets sad and then a little while later she gets very happy. This is very strange because if she loved him, then she would have been sad for a very long time and if she hated him, she would have been absolutely happy even if she didn't show it. This story says that she is sad at first and then gets happy. I realy do not understand what exactly she feels for her husband after reading this so I agree that this story is strange on so many levels.
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