Today I will talk about a story that I recently came across again and believe that it is one of the most powerful short stories, especially for how short it really is. Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour" takes no longer than ten minutes to read but will leave you thinking for much longer. The story is about a woman who finds out her husband has been involved in a train wreck. She begins acted as anyone would expect with hysterical disbelief at the occurrence but it does not take her long to turn that hysteria into a euphoric state. The ending is the best part and is open to a wide amount of interpretation and something that you must read on your own to come up with your own opinion. The story speaks strongly on the role of women in that time period and how society was forced to view women through the point of view of a man without input from anyone else. The stereotypes were strong and expected of the women. Many things have changed since this story was written but there are still prejudices from that period of time that still hold today. More people should read this story and other work done by Kate Chopin, it would do the world some good. But who read anymore?