"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin is about Louise Mallard, a woman in a

traditional Victorian marriage, who receives the news that her husband was killed
in an accident. After her grief subsides, she begins to see opportunity and
freedom in her future.

The moral of the story undermines the famous saying "the truth shall set you
free"; Mrs. Mallard finds freedom in the false belief that her husband is dead, and
dies when she faces the truth.

“The Story of an Hour” reflects Chopin's view of the repressive role that marriage
played in women's lives as the protagonist, Louise Mallard, feels immense
freedom only when her husband has died. While he is alive, she must live for him,
and only when he dies does her life once again become her own.