“A Story of an Hour'' tells a story of a woman who has just found out that her husband had died in an accident. She immediately mourns him but after some reasoning decides that his death has given her a new sense of freedom and a new lease on life.
When she comes out however, she finds that the husband was alive after all and this caused her to have a heart attack which killed her. The events of this story happened in the space of an hour which is where the book gets its title.
