A delusion is a belief that is clearly false, that indicates an abnormality in the affected person's content of thought that make a person lose touch with reality. Rebecca Serle clams, “It’s not that girls are delusional, per se. It’s just that they have subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.” Serle believes girls are not delusional; they just like to imagine and make things up in their minds, also can lose touch with reality. The two stories that be comparing are “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Verb to Kill” by Luisa Valenzuela. I will be analyzing the subject of delusions between the two stories. After reading both stories numerous times and carefully reviewing it, I strongly feel with good reason that: Valenzuela’s story, “The Verb to Kill” serves as a stronger model for the subject of delusions because the delusion leads the two girls to do the unthinkable. In “The Story of an Hour,” Louise Mallard is having a delusion that she is free, but in reality she was not. The delusion began when her sister Josephine announced that her husband Brently had died in an accident. Rather than feeling the pain of having lost a loved one, Louise expressed an unexpected array of emotions. She felt a joyous feeling of independence granted by the death of her husband. For example, Louise said under her breath: “free, free, free!” (7). She firmly believes that her husband is dead and she is free to live for herself. Chopin writes, “There would be no one to live for her during those up coming years: she would live for herself” (8). Louise’s bizarre delusions stem from the self-realization that she has been living for her husband and he has been the center of her life but not anymore. Louise newly recognized “possession of self-assertion” is what she means by whispering, “Free! Body and soul free!”(8). Throughout the story she repeats the words “free” over and