Mrs. Mallard's So-Called New Life

“There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
She could see in the open square before her home the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.”
In Kate Chopin’s, “The Story of an Hour,” the main character, Mrs. Mallard, goes through a sudden change of feelings. Upon hearing the news of her husband being killed in a railroad accident, Mrs. Mallard feels sad just as every wife probably would feel. But, as she thinks about it more, a new feeling comes over her, a feeling of freedom. However, her sudden feeling of joy brings about an uncontrollable event in her life.
The countless spar...