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Q.1: What was Mrs. Mallard’s first reaction to the news of her husband’s alleged death?

Ans: Mrs. Mallard's first reaction to the news of her husband's alleged death was a storm of grief. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment in her sister Josephine’s arms. When the storm of grief went away itself, she locked herself into her room.

She rested on a comfortable armchair, looking to the open window. She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair. Her gaze was fixed on the patches of blue sky outside the window. And she was feeling that something was coming to her.

Q.2: How would you describe Mrs. Mallard’s reaction on hearing of her husband’s death?

Ans: Mrs. Mallard’s reaction on hearing of her husband’s death was quite natural at first. She wept, with sudden, wild abandonment as any woman would. Later on she locked herself into her room thinking about her life with Mr. Mallard and feeling the grief of his death.

But then she realized that now she is free. She was feeling a sense of freedom in her life. She was enjoying a feeling of monstrous joy. She was thinking that now she would live for herself and now there would be no one to stop her to her will.

Q.3: What is the surprise ending of “The Story of an Hour”? OR Describe the surprise in which ‘The Story of an Hour’ ends.

Ans: The surprise ending of the story ‘The Story of an Hour’ is when Mrs. Mallad believed that now she is free in her life and there is no one to stop her to her will. Exactly, the same moment, somebody opened the front door with a latchkey and he was her husband Brently Mallard who was actually not died in the train accident and was away from the scene of accident.

Mrs. Mallard could not bear the fact that still she was not free in her life and all of her dreams to live her life freely after the husband’s death were broken. She died of the shock.

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Q.4: What sort of married life do you think Mr. and Mrs. Mallard had in the story, ‘The Story of an Hour’?

Ans: About the married relationship of Mr. and Mrs. Mallard, though, not mentioned clearly in the text of the story but still it can be said that Mrs. Mallard loved her husband and sometimes not. The line from the text ‘And yet she had love him –sometimes. Often she had not.’ tells us that although she loved her husband but sometimes she did not.

In the later part of the story, we read that she feels a sense of freedom in her life after the death of her husband, also shows that she was not happy in her married life. So it can be concluded that their married life was not so much a happy life.

Q.5: What change occurred in Mrs. Mallard’s feelings when she was alone in her room?

Ans: When Mrs. Mallard was alone in her room, her feelings towards the death of her husband started changing. She felt a sense of freedom. She thought of the days ahead she would live with freedom. She said over and over under her breath with slightly parted lips, “Free, Free!”.  And she was thinking that there would be no one to stop her to her will.