The Story of an Hour

    Respond to the following questions using the short story "The Story of an Hour" Write each question and then provide a short answer 1. What is the significance of Mrs. Mallard’s “heart trouble”? Why do you think the author opens the story with it? 2. Do you think Mrs. Mallard's reaction to her husband's death is strange or not? 3.Mrs. Mallard describes the stairs she is descending “like a goddess of Victory”. What does it mean? How does she feel victorious? 4.The last sentence in the story, “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills.” What is its significance? What do you think killed her? 5.What do you think the title means? 6. What is the theme or moral of the story?