When I first started reading "The Story of an Hour" Mrs. Mallard seemed like an old woman to me, and as we are told in the very first line, “afflicted by a heart problem.” to my surprise in the eighth paragraph when Chopin tells us that "she was young", but what was even more interesting to me is that she is described as having "a beautiful and calm face, whose lines reveal repression" which describes her as being too old for her age. “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin is the story of a woman who expresses grief and sorrow over the supposed death of her husband. This news took her by surprise and caused her to become very depressed and mute. The story detailed the effects of her husband's death on her life. Kate Chopin uses extremely descriptive diction and figurative language to portray her pain and sadness. After reading this story for the first time, I had many questions and had come to many conclusions. For example, it seems that Chopin is showing us a social situation of the time with women prisoners of their lives. Before this point she was referred to as Mrs. Mallard or “she,” and after the time her husband comes home, she was then called “wife.” Chopin here calls attention to something very interesting which brings me back to the title of woman as “wife”. When Louise marries Bently she becomes Mrs Mallard; he neglects his identity and accepts a new and strange one. Although it seems very normal for a wife to take on her husband's name in marriage and, to put it mildly, become the property of her husband, it cannot be overlooked that a certain part of the self is lost. This woman is very in harmony with this misfortune and although the love for her husband prevents her from doing so, the freedom she felt when she thought he was dead became inevitable and