American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1025 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Story of an Hour"
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The idea
Told her husband has died in a rail accident, a woman with a heart condition weeps, goes upstairs, and whispers that she is free. Her husband walks in unharmed and she dies, of what the doctors call the joy that kills.
In practice
An hour of freedom, and a doctor's verdict.
Where people slip
The doctors' diagnosis is the story's last irony.
Your place on the trail
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