Question

Read the passage.

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.
In addition to a medical condition, what might the narrator in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin mean by “heart trouble”?

A) Mrs. Mallard longs for her husband’s love.

B) Mrs. Mallard wears her heart on her sleeve.

C) Mrs. Mallard is unhappy in her marriage.

D) Mrs. Mallard has a broken heart.

Answer 1

D because her husband is dead and she has heart issues

Answer 2

The correct answer is D) Mrs. Mallard has a broken heart. Chopin begins and ends with the statement about Louse Mallard's heart trouble. At the beginning of the story, Chopin uses the term primarily in a medical sense, but through the course of the story, Mrs. Mallard's presumed frailty seems to be largely a result of psychological repression rather than truly physiological factors.