Josephine's Narrate: A Short Story

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The sense of being “free” and “independent” were nothing more than imaginations. They could have hoped to be things of such, but society has limited them to be caring wives and mothers instead. Mrs. Mallard has been compelled to follow the life course that society has set for her. In a society where holding a specific position in a household is the “norm,” one may tend to live in a hypocritical world full of lies in order to be segregated from society. Louise struggles to endure the confines of society in the 19th century that has limited her individuality. In the story, her sister, Josephine, took great care to tell Louise of her husband’s death. Josephine “veiled hints that revealed in half concealing,” which exemplifies that women were seen as fragile and sentimental in this time period. Furthermore, when Mrs. Mallard isolates herself in a room to deal with her inner emotions, her sister pleads her to come out, insisting that she will make herself ill if she refuses too. The way Josephine presents herself as worrisome and thoughtful portrays that women were

Who am I? I am Josephine Allbrandi, I am 17 years old, and I can be exactly whoever I want to be. About 6 months ago I wouldn't have felt the same. I hated my life at that time. My Grandma and my mum controlled my life and I always felt like I couldn't be who I wanted to be. They controlled me in every way possible. I hated it. I wanted to be free. I wanted to be emancipated. Did that happen? Yes. But. Not in the way I thought. I wanted to be completely free from everything to do with Italy. I did not want to be Italian, but I did not want to be Australia. I was confused. But I'm not anymore, at least I hope I'm not. These are the events that shaped my perspective to what it is today.

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“Brently Mallard” was the first name I read as my eyes ran down the black and white page. My whole body had never felt more sensations all at once. Brently was my best friend, but still, I stood there without a second twitch at the thought of my own sorrow instead I burst through the doors and sprinted down the street toward the Brently’s house. Upon reaching the door I had second thoughts, how could I possibly bare this news to Mrs. Mallard myself? I then headed back down the street to the door of Josephine’s house, she was Louis's sister, and therefore would be able to break the news in a much simpler way than I. This was a

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The story is interesting in the fact that it all happens in the time frame of one hour. Being told in third person we go on an emotional rollercoaster ride all within one hour. This story changes how some people view death. Death normally evokes a sense of sorrow and grief; Kate Chopin shows how death symbolizes joy and independence. In this story, Mrs. Mallard is dealing with various things that people cope with in everyday life. She has heart trouble and seemingly some other health issues as well as dealing with her husband’s demise. Josephine saw the need to make sure that the news was broken to her gently.

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Mrs. Louise Mallard's cardiac disorder makes unexpected frights life-threatening, and because of it everyone basically creeps around her and treats her cautiously. When her mate Brently was believed to have been killed in a train mishap, her sister Josephine and her Brently's friend Richards broke the news to her moderately, keep in mind her cardiac disorder. Louise immediately cries her eyes out, then goes to her room to be by herself and locks herself in her room, where her depression over Brently’s death begins to bequeath sense to an unexperienced feeling of abandon and force. Just yesterday she felt subdued in her marriage. Now she is praying for life to be protracted so she can enjoy some time to herself. Intimately, she is petrified

I am settled in American University now. Just finished my first day of orientation. So far, I love the college atmosphere! The campus is only a 10 minute metro ride to Downtown DC, so I have been exploring the city. The school accepted my AP score. I don’t know if I am happy about that or not. It saves money, but now my philosophy and literature general education area is covered. I really want to take classes in those areas, but now I will probably have to wait a couple of semesters.

After lunch one day in sophomore year, I met Miss Catalan in her classroom before I opened the door I saw her through the window standing next to her desk pointing at a white sheet of paper and talking about it to someone, when I came in Ms.Catalan asked me to help her explain a letter to my classmate Katherine, who had only been in the U.S for less than 5 months. I started translating, explaining to her what Ms.Catalan wanted her to know. and so Katherine started talking to me about how difficult was to learn and do good at school with the barrier of a whole new language. I understand how Katherine was feeling I had gone through the same thing. My teachers would call me even when I had my pencil, paper and concentration ready and ask me to

Mrs. Mallard’s husband died and her sister, Josephine, and the dead husband’s friend, Richards, were going to break the news. They expected her to be incredibly depressed after hearing the news. However, she was more than anything, happy about the news. The joy was cut short however, as her feeble heart failed from the sight of her husband, alive and well.

To provide a plot overview, the story starts out describing that Louise Mallard suffers with heart problems, and that she must be informed of her husband’s (Brently) death carefully. Josephine tells her the news about Brently dying in a train accident, which she

When I first read this short story, my initial thought about her was that she was an elderly woman. However, as I read on it was brought to light that she is in fact a younger woman, “with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength.” (Kennedy X.J., p.280). This is the first situation where something doesn’t appear as it should. A young woman, like Louise, should not be the type to have heart disease and a dead husband, but that is what has taken place in the story. Because of her affliction, her sister, Josephine, and her husband’s

She could live for herself from now on. As readers, we know she was happy, yet at that moment her sister was begging to her to open the door because Josephine was worried that her Mrs. Mallard was making her ill. Who can imagine that somebody who just lost her or his family is felling happy or pleased? I guess not many people could do. In the end of story, the doctor came and said that because of the “joy”, she got heart disease and died. “Joy” here in the doctor means that the fact her husband hadn’t died, but he is still alive. However, the actual cause of her death is not “joy”, instead, “shock and disappointment”. She was surprised and shocked, and disappointed because the freedom finally she thought she obtain is gone. Losing her joy of freedom shocked her more than the