The story of the hour by Kate Holloway didn’t really grab me at first. When I started reading about this women and the death of her husband I thought it was just going to be another story about how much this woman loved her husband and how her loss is going to affect her life. However as I read I was surprised to find that the story is not about love and loss but about new found freedom. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms” (Clugston2010). When I read that Passage I felt that there was going to be more to this story. When most women hear the death of their husbands they cry but she was over reacting to this and tried to hide what she was actually thinking. It wasn’t something that you were entirely sure of but there were hints. At first I thought she may have had something to do with his death. I thought that maybe this was a reaction to guilt. It was but it wasn’t because she had anything to do with his death. She was feeling guilty because she felt free. When she was alone in the room she was facing an open window. An open window can symbolize freedom, an escape. Then again somebody could have just left the window open. However this was not the case because there are other elements in the story that not only hint they scream happiness and life and freedom. “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.” (Clugston,2010) The open square symbolizes open spaces and new opportunities she sees her future as full of opportunity. Spring is always a symbol for new beginnings that one is obvious. “The tops of trees all aquiver” (Clugston2010) is like her nerves excited with her new possibilities. When I first read this story I missed most of I was reading and really didn’t give the story much thought or what the words were trying to...