Checkov's "On Christmas Eve"
A story by Anton Chekhov entitled "On Christmas Eve" which was published in 1883 has a similar plot where Mrs. Litvinova having heard suspicions of her husband's death at sea realizes gleefully that widowhood would finally make her free of him. Chekhov continues the story past where Chopin leaves hers off, but the stories are eerily similar in how they expose unhappy marriages by showing the wife feeling free after her husband's death.
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