The story of an hour- Kate Chompin

In this story is the reoccurring theme of sexism as in the story Girl by Kincaid. Talks of a lonely women who get news of her husbands death, she is saddend, then is happy, extremely happy. For the simple fact that she does not have to be married to her husband no longer. She is stricken with joy! untill her husband walks threw the door unaware of an accident and she dies right there of a heart attack because she knows that she will no longer be free anymore.

When she finds of her husbands death she locks herself in a bathroom sobbing. Peering out threw an open window where it is a beautiful day with birds, and clear blue skies. She all of a sudden realizes that she is no longer tied down by the wedding bands of marriage and begins to utter that she is free! She then starts to think of all of the things she can and will do because she is  no longer tied down by her husband, which i guess he was tell her what to do and controlling her life. All in this however it is mentioned that her husband did greatly love and adore his wife. But she didnt love the fact that she was being controlled. Seems like a love hate relationship. So then she hears some one come threw the door and it is her husband. She dies of her heart condition, because to be sunken down so fast about her husbands death to then being quickly uplifted by the fact she is free, to then shock of the fact that he is still alive is heart stopping. this is what i would call a bit of  irony for the fact that she is so happy to be rid of the husband and then eventually it kills her because of it.