After reading the Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin I found that personal freedom is so dear. In her story the writer depicts how Mrs. Mallard died. Louise died not of heart attack or out of joy as the doctors said at the end of the story, in fact she died because she lost her dreams about freedom.
When Louise heard the news that her husband died in a train accident, she went upstairs sad, but not collpsed. She opened the window and started to feel that strange feelings of freedom of body and soul. She called it the elixir of life. She thought of the coming days of freedom. After the wave of sadness had gone she went downstairs. But when her husband reappeared again she died.
This story leads us to see how personal freedom is so precious to the extent of dieying for it. On the other hand, the story reflects that although there was love between wife and husband there was the feeling of oppression. I think such a feeling sprang from the confiscation of the free will of the individual. In addition to that, the story calls for woman rights to fight against oppression and to be free. Then nobody blames the freedom fighters, because they are the fighters for the true essence of life.
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