"The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard, who has a trouble with her heart that will lead to her death in the end of the story. Her sister, Josephine must be careful tell her about Louise's husband's death and Brently's(husband) friend, Richard read the newspaper that is about train accident on the road and saw Brently in the list of those who wer "killed". However at the end of the story, Brently came back to the house like there wasn't even a train accident or he didn't knew about the news. Louise was dead by a heart attack after Brently's unexpected arrival. All the actions in the story revolves around her preservation.
In the beginning of the story, Josephione carefully tells Louise about Brently's death from the train accident. However "she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a parallyzed inability to accept its significance". This means that she was not crying because of her husband's death, but tears of joy of his death. Louise kept repeating the word "free!" to herself as "her pulses beat fast and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body." While her heart was beating fast, Josephine called her by knocking on the door to come down stains. Her heart was still beating fast, thinking about of joy of new life, and as soon as she came down to the stairs, "Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little ravel-stained, composedly carrying his grip- sack and umbrella. "The moment Louise saw Brently coming in to his home, she died by heart attack "of joy that kills".
Throughout the story, Kate Chopin shows people's greed can lead to horrible result that can actually cause death. If Louise Mallard really love her husband, she can immediately die after hearing the news about train accident that "The Story of An Hour" would not count as the "The Story of An Hour"
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