Bedford-pages 13-23

Reading Bedford pages 13-23 made me realize how many things go into a readers response on a passage. Whether it is your sex, age, or race, different people have different responses when reading a story. When I read Kate Choplin's "The Story of an Hour", I first thought it was going to be about her husband dying and her being extremely depressed afterwords. After getting through the whole story, I realized she felt feelings of saddness and relief. I felt like she eventually decided to look at the negatives as well as the positives and by doing so she realized she was free of marriage. I was personally wondering how old Louise was in the story, because I didn't know if she thought she could maybe find somebody new. At the end of the story when she died after seeing him, it was said she "the joy that kills", which honestly I still do not fully understand what that means. I feel like if somebody that had gone through a similar situation would read this, they would sympathize with what Louise was feeling. Maybe some would have the same feelings, some would have different ones. It seems to me that Louise was unhappy with her marriage, but she just did not want to admitt it. I feel like she must of had strong morals and believed that marriage was not to be broken.