In Kate Chopins' "The Story of an Hour", there is a lot of information about the setting missing from the story and I think it helps it overall, being an already condensed story with very little action or dialogue between any of the characters; this seems to help by saving the space for describing in great details Mrs. Mallard and her feelings and how she reacted to the news of her husband’s death “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms” (Chopin 115). Mrs. Mallard is battling a great conflict from the worst of all sources of such; inside herself. She is fighting and denying the facts that she feels relieved and even joyous at the realization that her husband is dead “She was beginning to recognize a this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will – as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been” (Chopin 115-116). A greater feeling even than that of the grief she initially felt at hearing the news of his death a few short moments earlier. She is her own antagonist! Then just when she has convinced herself that she is not wrong for feeling this way; happy, free, alive “Free! Body and soul free!” ( Chopin 116), “There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory” (Chopin 117), in walks her husband alive and well “It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip sack and umbrella” (Chopin 117). The story comes to a crashing end with Mrs. Mallard dying at the sight of her husband, believable, being that she did after all have a bad heart! “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease..” (Chopin 117), but the author leaves us hanging with a final irony twist or question if it was from joy as the doctors said or was this sarcasm from Chopin? Was she killed from