Hmmm.
The story of a frail old woman with a heart problem who's family is concerned. Concerned because her husband has been killed in an accident. The family are afraid to deliver the news in fear that it will kill her. They do tell her ultimately and she then goes to her room. There she goes through the stages of depression and grief while staring out her bedroom window. She is sad and grieving, then she feels empty, then she feels acceptance, then the happy positive possibilities of the future.
This is an old story about an old woman in a society that is run by men. Her life with her husband although not bad is now free from any and all control. So she realizes that she is now "Free" She now doesn't have to appease him anymore.
When she leaves the room with her sister happy feeling independent and strong looking forward to her new future without her husband.
As she comes down the stair case her husband turns up at the front door perfectly fine and was not involved in the thought accident.
The woman sees him and has a heart attack and dies.
Does she die from the happiness brought by her husband alive or by the sadness that she will never be able to live out the fantasy she conjured up of her new independent life?
???
I think the latter.
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