"Story of an Hour"

Well in this story Mrs. Mallard dies from the joy that kills which they thought was the fact she found out her husband was still alive. Once she heard the news of her husbands death she just wanted to be left alone and after thinking about it for a while she realized how much happier her life would be without her husband there. So she got excited for her new life to start without him. I wouldn't want to be with anyone that made me so unhappy that I would actually enjoy their death but apparently she was. Once she found out her husband was still alive she died. Poor woman never got to enjoy her freedom.