According to the text Mrs Mallard’s initial response to her husband’s death is different from other women because

Answer and explanation:

The Story of an Hour is a short story written by Kate Chopin. It is the end of the 19th century, Mrs. Louise Mallard is notified that her husband Brently lost his life in a railroad accident. She feels a sudden relief and a sense of upcoming freedom. So, her reaction differs from expected because she is not sad, nor she cries. She sits by the window and imagines the most beautiful scenarios involving all the things she can do, now when her husband is not alive anymore, and thus can not control her activities and life generally. She did not hate Mr. Mallard, on the contrary, she loved him, but she also loved the freedom that was unexisting to her. The story ends in a way that Mr. Mallard comes home as the news about his death was not correct. Louise gets a heart attack seeing him in front of her as all her dreams of independence get shattered. Doctors said that she died of joy because she realized that Brently is not dead, while the real reason was that she could not stand the comeback to reality after an hour of dreaming.

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