The author, Kate Chopin, opens the story with the scene in which Mrs. Mallard is about to be informed by her sister, Josephine, of Mr. Mallard’s death. "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death" (550). At the end of the story, it becomes clear that this sentence foreshadows the story's climax. Chopin lets …showed first 75 words of 1704 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1704 total…Story of an Hour is indeed an irony of fate. Often in life, things never happen the way one wants or expects and because if this, it is very important to always try to make the best of every situation. Mrs. Mallard expects her freedom to come from her husband’s death, but, once fate kicks in, Mrs. Mallard ends up getting her freedom from her own death--a battle that lasted only for an hour.