In “the story of an hour” by kate chopin, mrs. mallard’s initial reaction to her husband’s death is grief. what is the first indication that mrs. mallard has had a change of heart about her husband’s death? she drops dead from shock. she whispers, “free, free, free! ” she tells her sister she is feeling better. she retreats to her room to sing.

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up