The Story of an Hour

This story almost made me laugh because it was so bizarre. A woman believes her husband has died and is distraught. Then, she realizes that she is in fact, not distraught, "She breathed a quick prayer that life would be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long." It's really tragic that this woman is extatic at the thought that her husband has died. She feels "free" now to live her own life and live it for herself, but I wonder why she would have ever even married him in the first place. I wonder what could make that marriage so aweful that the death if her husband is he only thing that could make it better. Furthermore, when she realizes that her husband survived the train crash, she is so shocked that she dies "of joy that kills". That's how the story ends. So is she joyful or sad that he survived? I'm not sure.