“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is about a woman with heart problems, she is informed that her husband has been killed in a train accident and after hearing that news she becomes hysterically distraught . She locks herself in a room, sits in a chair and looks out the window where what she saw outside seemed to be trying to penetrate or overwhelm her. She panicked at first, but then began to feel a deep peace with herself after accepting the fact of her husband's death. Her sister begs her to leave the room as she is worried about her, when she does they leave as her supposedly dead husband came through the door. It turns out he never died in the first place, but then, ironically, after seeing him he dies of heart disease. There are many things in this story that can be analyzed from a feminist perspective. For example, when Mrs. Mallard was first told of her husband's death. The author points out that she "did not listen to the story as many women have heard the same thing, with a paralyzed inability to accept its meaning."(25-27) This could mean or single out women as people who do not know how to accept important matters or any very important responsibility. His story implies that perhaps men have the ability to handle such horrible news or that an issue is important without making a big scene. The reason I'm using this example is because the sentence says "women" instead of just saying anyone who singled out a woman for everyone else who heard the same news. Now the way Mrs. Mallard herself handled the news of her husband's death was dramatic, "she cried at once, with sudden, wild abandon" (35-36) the word abandonment suggests that she needs a man in her ..... .in the center of the card...r's life, and together they went down the stairs” his doing could be the attempt to wrap this newfound happiness of his freedom around his sister another woman as if she were trying to encourage her to do so. free yourself. Then when her husband, who had never really died, came into the house, Mrs. Mallard died right there because when she saw her husband, all her freedom vanished right before her eyes as he walked in and now that she saw the freedom that a free woman could have had and now that she couldn't go back she would never be happy again. “When the doctors came they said she died of heart disease, of the joy that kills” this could mean that when men had control over the woman, it was as if it was a disease in women's hearts. After experiencing the happiness of woman's rights and freedom and the thought of being without that happiness kills her, literally.