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What does "the joy that kills" mean?
I recently read Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and was wondering what she meant when she wrote " she died did of the joy that kills".
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It means that they thought she died because she was so happy that her supposedly dead husband returned from the dead when the truth is she died because the s.o.b. wasn't dead and she thought she was free. That's the final irony of the story. EbI
Source(s): I've taught the story for 15 years.
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