The ending of a story is the most important and most enjoyed by the readers. No one wants there happy or sad ending ruined by someone who has already read the book. Readers want to find out the ending on their own. Otherwise they wouldn't read the book from cover to cover they would just read the ending chapter.
             For a writer in my point of view it is extremely hard to write a surprise ending. Yet in this story "The Story of an Hour" the author tells you with in the first paragraph what is going to happen. Until the ending is completely different from what you thought it would be. Kate Chopin is by far the master of surprise endings. She is the author of this well written story.
             When I read this story I had to read it over about 3 times before I figured out what was actually going on. I felt bad for Louise Mallard in the beginning of the story. She was crying and very upset. Then Chopin the author led to believe that Louise was happy her husband had died. When Louise was down stairs in front of her sister and her husband friend Richards she was very upset. Yet when she went upstairs into her room with the door shut she showed that she was happy. She kept whispering to her self "Free! Body and soul free!"
             Yet when Louise found out that her husband (Brently Mallards) was still alive, she got so excited that she had died from her heart disease. The doctors said she
             died from something different called "joy that kills." which I personally don't agree with the doctors. I think that she just prepared herself to live without Brently, and was moved on already. But when she saw him it was a complete shock and her heart couldn't handle it. Which the irony there is I think that Brently caused the heart problem. This story takes place in 1894 where people were still having arranges marriages. I think Louise was in love with another man when
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