Deceptions in Time: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”(Intro Paragraph)

The short story, “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin during the late 1800’s is a dramatic interpretation that explores Mrs. Mallard’s unexpected reaction to her husband’s assumed death and reappearance. During this one hour, she receives an incorrect message of her husband’s death, realizes her liberation, and then tragically passes away. Chopin describes the way that Mrs. Mallard reacts to the news of her husband, Brently Mallard’s death by stating, “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same.” She illustrates the many emotions that inevitably run through her. “She wept at once, with sud...