Hour of a Story When people with a low need for cognition read The Story of an Hour, they may think that Mrs. Mallard's death was the result of a heart condition in correlation with a sudden surprise of her living husband. I believe that a heart condition is not completely to blame, as Mrs. Mallard was beginning to visualize and enjoy a future of free life without the governing hands of her husband. The …showed first 75 words of 460 total…

…showed last 75 words of 460 total…is back from the grave to surprise her. It was as if she was being enslaved, and the taste of freedom, even for a second, was too good, and she could not go back to her slaved life. It was the compilation of all these things that collided at one heart-stopping moment that killed Mrs. Mallard. For Mrs. Mallard, it was not the beginning of a wonderful life, but the last hour of her story.