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Examples Of Hope In The Story Of An Hour

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Hope In “The story of an hour” In “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard, once she had absorbed the news of her husband's death, experienced a sense of self assertion. She had accepted the news of her husband’s death and almost immediately, different thoughts started coming in her mind. One of the stronger feelings was a feeling of being free. She started thinking of her life ahead, a life that would be entirely hers, that would only belong to her. She could lead her life on her own terms as her husband will not be there to impose his private will upon her. Mrs. Mallard is justified for feeling and for thinking the way she did, after getting the news of her husband's death. What she is feeling is perfectly natural. She has accepted the death

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