Joy can kill
... limitation on women of the era. She had led a restrained life, while developing heart disease, living a sort of imbalanced marriage with her husband, lacking in the excitement and exploration that she secretly longed for but society looked down upon a single woman engaging in. She had been living her life in a sort of imbalanced marriage with her husband With the news of her husband’s death her initial reaction was a brief storm of grief and then a sudden sense of recognition of the dissatisfaction she had been feeling with her husband and her life and a feeling of disbelief that she could possibly be free from her social obligations and could now be the independent woman she longed to be. She was a woman worn down by life and had been dreading the length of time so thought remained for her and now having obta...