“The Red Crown” (1922) is told by the inmate of a sanitarium, who appears to have had a nervous breakdown over the death of his brother, an officer in the White army.
The Emperor of France is about to fall asleep when he hears a rustling sound near his bed. Soon he hears a “deep groan” coming from the closet in his apartment…
“The Story of an Hour” was controversial by American standards of the 1890s because it features a female protagonist who feels liberated by the news of her husband’s death.
