This shows us how love can ignite human madness. In "The Story of an Hour", Mrs. Mallard felt happy but not depressed after her husband's death as she can free herself from this. This shows us how love kills and buries the romance of the relationship. Therefore, people think that marriage is the graveyard of romance and I think this is true after reading these stories as there are strong examples in these stories and it makes me think why people still maintain this system even though they have fear