Theme vs Moral

The final example proving that the theme and the moral are different is, "Story of an Hour." The theme throughout this short story is very grim. The husband always loved his wife, but his wife didn't really care about him, or even the fact that he loved her. “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome." (Chopin 14). The wife initially was heartbroken that her husband had died because he had loved and treated her well; however, she was able to get over the loss much more quickly than most other people in her place. The theme of the book is, the wife detested having a husband because she felt like it held her back, but she also hated men in general, even if they did nothing wrong. The theme goes in further than that by proving that sexists and racists don’t have a base for their hate, only the fact that the other person is different than the sexist or racist. She felt like men held her back and she couldn't care less that her husband was a good man, only that he was a man. The moral of the story is different. There are many different morals that can be taken away after reading, but there is one that is very obvious. The most obvious moral is, if a person is exuberant that someone who has done nothing wrong is dead and the person who is happy is also very nefarious, then something extremely terrible will happen to the evil person.