Blog Report 2 Revised Madison Klump

I believe that in “The story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard loves her husband. I say that because the way that the story is told you don’t really know if she had a happy or sad marriage. So you could go either way but I believe that she had a happy marriage and that she actually did love her husband. There are a few reasons why I believe that she had a happy marriage and that she loved her husband. One reason I believe that she loved her husband is because when she thought that her husband was one of the guys that died in the railroad disaster she wept in her sister’s arms. And she soon wanted to be left alone in the room where she ended up sitting in her chair looking out the window “when she started sobbing like a child does” (Chopin 2). Another reason why I believed that she loved her husband is when she say’s “Free!  Body and soul free” (Chopin 2)! I feel like she is saying this because she believes that her husband is now free from everything which is a good thing even though he may not be with her. Or maybe that she was happy that he was free because she knew that she would be free soon too because she had heart problems and she would be with him in heaven soon. I believe this because she says “And yet she had loved him” and she says “what could love the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion, which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being” (Chopin 2). The last reason I believed that she loved him was because at the end of the story her husband walked in the door and then she died of a heart attack. I believe that she was so surprised that he was alive and happy to see him that that it caused her to have a heart attack.