Louise Mallard In Louise Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

This helps the reader understand why Mrs. Mallard dies when she sees her husband alive and well. It also makes her death more jarring because it is told by Josephine’s and Richard’s actions instead of a direct

Madame Mallard wanted to be free of her husband and her death. At the moment when Madame Mallard was passing alone in her room, she felt a revelation that she would no longer be bound to her husband. She was extremely depressed, and that was why she had gone to her room. While Josephine thought that Mrs. Mallard was getting sick. She was rather happy that her husband died, which is certainly not the reaction that everyone expected her. Another case of irony in Mrs. Mallard's situation after hearing the news of her husband's death. However, Mrs. Mallard knows something else than dark and gloomy. She could hear someone sing and the birds learn. "There were spots of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds, and it seems that her environment

Louise Mallard began to grief her husband’s death in Josephine’s arm. When alone in the room the sobbing had stopped. She then reveals great joy as Louise realizes

When her husband is killed in a train accident Mrs. Mallard cries, but for different reasons than would be expected. She is sad for her husband’s death, but, moreover, she is overcome with joy. For now she is free. No one recognizes her true emotions because women fall apart when their spouse dies; it’s required. Marriage is portrayed as a life sentence. "She said it over and over again under her breath: ‘free, free, free!' Her pulse beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body"(1). Mrs. Mallard was relieved that her husband died for she thought her sentence was over. When she realized that he was still alive, and therefore she was still committed to the marriage, she died from the shock and horror of being trapped.

When Mrs. Mallard hears the news of her husband’s death she weeps and feels abandoned while she falls

As any woman would, Mrs. Mallard initially “wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment,” (227) at the news of her husband’s death. Her weeping almost seems forced as Mrs. Mallard’s true character is revealed later on. She is described as “young, with a

Initially, Mrs. Mallard reacts with great sadness over the news of her husband’s death. Knowing that Mrs. Mallard suffers from “heart trouble”, Josephine, Mrs. Mallard’s sister decides to “hint” her the news of Brently’s death in “broken sentences”. Josephine assumes that Mrs. Mallard “[loves]” her husband, and naturally

Mrs. Mallard finds out that her husband has just died, "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment." The character of Josephine is there to represent her conflict against society. As the story starts up, she as Mrs. Mallard turns to her sister Josephine and weeps in her arms after hearing the sudden news of her husband's death. This is her acknowledging the grief that society expects her to feel. Her openness to Josephine represents the acceptance that came with acting in accordance with what society expected. Mrs. Mallard displays her strength, “When the storm of grief … away to her room alone.” The fact that she does not bring Josephine with her implies the conflict that is about to take place." Josephine is the social norms, assuming that she is weak without her husband by her side. Mrs. Mallard's isolation from this assumption represents that she has strength and can stand on her own. This expected strength is confirmed as Chopin writes, "Josephine was kneeling … lips to the keyhole”, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! … before you make yourself ill." The closed door to Josephine shows her decision to close her

Mrs. Mallard death is a symbol for all of the women in this day of age, in the sense of treatment and love they have towards their significant others. She loved her husband dearly that when she saw her husband was alive she literally died of being so happy and her heart couldn’t handle it” When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills”, she represents all the other women out there that are going through the same treatment. The women around this time frame, where always

Mallard has a heart condition and her husband recently has died. She feels depleted at first, but then she starts to not feel sorry as she realizes she has more freedom. However, Mr. Mallard comes in through the door being alive this whole time and everyone is in shock. Once Mrs. Mallard see her husband she is in shock and passes away at the sight.

In the story, it was said that they believed she had died of joy when she had found out that her husband was alive and not dead. But, as the reader we come to know what only the narrator knows and that was the moment of extreme happiness Mrs. Mallard had alone in her room when she realized she had lost her spouse and the future she could not wait in living. With this tone that the narrator gives in the story, leaves the reader with the unknown of what really killed Mrs. Mallard. It is for us as the readers to decide if she was truly happy or disappointed that her husband was alive. Or, it was to believe that she was extremely surprised and indenial at that moment.

Chopin explained most of the characters especially well all through the story, which helped the story read better. Louise Mallard is the protagonist in this story and the antagonist is the wrap she has on in her part as a wedded woman in the 1800's. There are only a few characters in this story and the key character is Louise Mallard, she is to a great degree established and changes all through the story. In the beginning, Chopin explains Mrs. Mallard as a woman having the unmistakable characteristic of self-proclamation which is obliged by her marriage. She is in every way the "victim" of an arrogant however rarely loving partner.

We read about Mrs. Mallard’s grief, relief, and shock that she experiences on this one day. Through all of the information we learn about the things she dealt with in her marriage, the shock that she went through, I believe we can conclude that the character of Mrs. Mallard is one that we can sympathize with.

The Author of "The Story of an Hour" written by Kate Chopin, this Story presents, Chopin's shows Mrs. Louise Mallard, the main character of this short story, that principal character related to the others, Mr. Mallard is dead, We don't know for him much but he is only died by train accident. Josephine has the sister of Mrs. Mallard, she always thinking about her health, Brently up to this time lives her freedom is gone also, Brently loved to her.

Mallard when she does what is thought to be abnormal. When the sad news of her husband's death is broken to her, she does not react as other women would do in such a situation. We see this in her reaction, “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment,” (Chopin 169). We can understand this strange psychological behavior since her husband was oppressive to her life and therefore his death sound as a reprieve to her despite being a strange as we expect people to mourn their beloved