"The Story of an Hour" written by Kate Chopin

In "The Story of an Hour" written by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard's husband was killed in a horrific railroad accident. The setting foreshadows Mrs. Mallard's feeling towards her husband's death as she walks into her room and looks out the window. She does not find herself in a tragic state of mind over her husband's death. Instead she finds the things around her make her come to the realization of her happiness towards the loss …

…was happy that her husband has past. The setting brings out the main point of the short story, foreshadowing the results of the story. When Mrs. Mallard's husband enters the room, she sees him and is totally shocked. At this point, she looses all grips of her new life of freedom. The pain of this resulted in her sudden death. The narrator explains her shock and death as "the joy that kills." Mrs. Mallard actually