Modernize 'the story of an hour'

Amy Yang
IB Lit&Perf SL
Ms.Guarino
12/4/2019

For me, there are some sentences and words that I do not understand. Maybe that is because the writing style is not modernized. Therefore, I would like to modernize some sentences and words. There are some beautiful sentences that I like them so much, for example, "The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares." and "There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window." Actually, I do not really understand "modernize the story". For this story, I probably can only remember the main plot, such as Mrs.Mallard has heart trouble, and when she knew her husband died by a railroad disaster, she was crying and really sad. But when she saw her husband and found that he did not die, she died because she was "too happy". I think that is how much I understand about this story. 

 That was my first idea. But now I have some new ideas. I want to modernize it by adding some star phones in it. For example, they can get some wrong messages from the train station that says her husband died. Maybe it's just because the station sent message to wrong phone number. Or I was just thinking about people's names. It could happen just because the person who died has the same name with Mr. Mallard. That is also a way to modernize it. 

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