Independence is a forbidden pleasure that could be imagined only privately. In “Story An Hour,” by Kate Chopin in 1894, which was in a time period that women did not really have much power to say anything. The story took place in a short period of time. Mrs. Mallard believed that her husband was dead. She was confused and she rushed in to her bedroom where nobody could see here. While in the room it was a different side of her. She was happy in some sense but she was confused that her husband had dead. Moreover she known this new found freedom that she did not have before.