The story “A Dead Woman’s Secret” has inspired in me a lot of feelings and thoughts connected with the human relationships, family, love, trust and ignorance. The story is deeply philosophical and instructive. From the first lines of the story the reader is introduced to a woman, whose life was divine and blameless and her soul was sweet and her death was easy and not painful. Then the author brilliantly depicts the tragedy which is caused by her death. The woman’s children are experiencing real horror, despair and grief. Their emotional state is described by the author with the help of numerous stylistic expressive means to such an extent that we see a striking image of two people who are miserable about the death of their mother. They loved their mother like every child does and like every child they could never have thought that their mother could have a hidden affair. But at the point when they got to know the truth their attitude sharply changed as though their mother had committed a crime and was no longer the person, who devoted her entire life to her children. The dead women brought up her children in a decent way and instilled high moral values and qualities in them but they were not wise enough to forgive her.      The most important notion that is explored in this story is the notion of forgiveness. We should be more merciful, less superficial and shallow to our close people. The other author’s message is to accept people as they are and to love them for who they really are, without paying attention to their past, drawbacks and negative traits. One more idea is the idea of gratefulness and egoism which is opposed to it. Children should value their parents, be grateful to them and accept the fact that their parents are not perfect. Finally, the last idea is that one should always be sincere and cordial in order to avoid misunderstanding and not to hurt close people.