The Revolver (El revólver) is a short story by Emilia Pardo Bazán, which was first published in 1895.
Flora seems to be suffering from an illness caused by more than a physical discomfort, she is described as aged beyond her years with pre-mature gray hair and features that suggested a mental affliction.
In her story she describes having a happy marriage with her husband, Reinaldo, but then reveals that a year later he begins become jealous very easily.
Flora becomes restless at night and develops anxiety problems that impede her from living a normal life.
She ends the story by explaining that despite all the remedies against her illness, the unloaded gun shot her, “not in the head but in the center of [her] heart.” The Revolver essentially explores the situation of women in nineteenth-century Spain.