The Story of an Hour Group

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amybrar
amybrar
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High School - 12th Grade

What are the different events of the short story, which lead to the plot?

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Posted by amybrar on Tuesday December 4, 2007 at 12:56 PM and tagged with plot, the story of an hour.

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  1. renelane Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

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    We are told that Mrs. Mallard has a bad heart. Her relatives come over to bring her the crushing news of her husband's death in a railroad accident. She does not want to be with other people at this time, and retires to her room, seemingly to grieve in private.

    Yet, once she is alone, she feels a sense of relief at her husbands death. She did not hate her husband, but felt constricted in her role as his wife. She feels free for the first time, and is reveling in her new-found freedom.

    Her brief reverie ends when her husband walks through the door. He had not been at the accident sight at all. It was just a terrible mistake. Mrs. Mallard drops dead at this moment, apparently from the shock.

    Ironically, her death is attributed at the "joy" she felt on seeing her husband alive, yet it was most likely from seeing her freedom end.

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    Posted by renelane on Tuesday December 4, 2007 at 1:18 PM