She clasped her sister’s waist, and together they descended the stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom.
Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine’s piercing cry; at Richards’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of the joy that kills.
Kate Chopin was an American author whose works include two novels and nearly one hundred short stories. Chopin’s close relationships with her female relatives—her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother—provided inspiration for her strong female characters. Although some of her works were controversial at the time of publication, Chopin is now considered to have been ahead of her time and a precursor to the wave of feminist writing in the twentieth century. Chopin’s most notable works include The Awakening, At Fault, and the short story “Desiree’s Baby,” which explores race relations in antebellum Louisiana. Chopin died in 1904.
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