kate chopin's story of an hour
... free.” She had joy because she could start a new life and she felt free from her husband and friends. This joy had moved her in such a way it resulted in what the doctors said, “She had died of heart disease-of joy that kills.” We also see Mrs. Mallard’s personality and way of life around her husband and friends. This side of her personality died when she was alone and when she heard of her husband’s death. Now freedom was obtained to her. She then stayed alone upstairs and looked out through an open window. She saw “new spring life,” happiness, and hope which all describe her elixir of new life she got “through that open window.” But she later sees “something coming to her,” something she did not know of. The scene through the window changes drastica...