Mrs. Mallard

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Mrs. Mallard

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1. Good wife

2. Unexpected reaction

3. Surprised

4. Freedom

5. Marriage

6. Celebrates the death of her husband

7. Feelings about marriage

8. The influences of expectations

9. Inability to talk to one another

10. Happiness and sadness

11. Mixed feelings

12. Newfound, new life to begins

Mrs. Mallard is a typical woman that depends of her husband and clearly we know that she suffers from a weak heart from the beginning of the story, but her weak heart is a real condition or a sentimental problem? Your behavior demonstrates that the thing that she wants more is her freedom. The story presents the idea that she has been unhappy for your monotone marriage, maybe the inability to talk to one another. She really wants a newfound; she needs a new life to begin. This behavior I can justify with her reaction when she knows that her husband it’s dead. Unlike of a normal wife with reaction of sadness her reaction is overcome with mixed feelings that she retreats to her room.

Mrs. Unlike the reaction of sadness that most women would have to the news of their husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard is overcome with a feeling of emptiness and retreats to her room. Mrs. Mallard sits in a chair facing the window and begins to reflect. This chair and window would become a type of threshold for Mrs. Mallard, allowing her to move on in her life.

She seems to be portrayed as an older woman and of course, the newly married bride is portrayed as being young. In “The Story of an Hour,” the story seems to present the idea that Mrs. Mallard has been unhappy for quite a long time and ready to be set free.

Out of the dark sky comes one of the most important pieces of information in the story. Mrs. Mallard feels overcome by a force and in a way, almost possessed. She can’t help but whisper the words, “Free, free, free!” At first, Chopin does not clearly explain why a woman who lost her husband is uncontrollably whispering...