Every short story teaches a person what it is about and how it relates to real life. This is the definition of a theme which is mainly the subject of the text in the story. The idea of each story is to educate the reader more about life and what the dangers are to be aware of. It states arguments out in tiny tales which makes sense to the reader. A short story author, Kate Chopin, demonstrates how the subject matter relates to real life throughout her novellas. A couple of her stories are "The Story of An Hour", "The Locket" and "A Pair of Silk Stockings". All the stories she wrote made sense to the outside world for the reader to understand what the awareness of life is.
             A woman thought that her husband was dead because he didn't come home on time. Many wives fear this after a couple of weeks or months of marriage. This theme is illustrated in "The Story of An Hour". In this story, a man enters a woman's house and tells her that her husband (his brother) died in an accident. The woman gets really frightened and abruptly her husband shows up, so she gets shocked and quickly falls to the ground and dies. The quote "She had died of a heart disease – of joy that kills"(4), shows that the woman got over excited that she died happily to see her husband alive; She was stunned when she saw her husband still alive. The quote, "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully"(3), can also be evidence of something bad happening to her later on because of that final word in the quote. Or maybe fate had to take place by sending back her husband, which she would be scared to see her love come right out of the dead.
             This brings us to another selection of the works she did. "The Locket" talks about a man who was with a bunch of people sitting on a hillside. Chopin made this story that the reader doesn't know what is ...