The protagonist character Louise Mallard in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” portrays a wife’s unexpected response to her husband’s death. The narrator divulges to the reader modest but convincing hints of Mrs. Mallards newly discovered freedom. This newly discovered freedom would be short lived for Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard, who suffers from heart disease, was portrayed as an average wife who breaks down into a fit of distress from the …showed first 75 words of 412 total…

…showed last 75 words of 412 total…that her husband was not dead and she was not free, death was the only escape from the internal conflict of personal freedom. The conflict in “ The Story of An Hour” was centered on Mrs. Mallard’s lost personal freedom when she married her husband and became obedient to his stronger will. This personal conflict is prevalent in most married people but is not normally an over bearing conflict as was encountered within Mrs. Mallard.