Mrs. Mallard In Kate Chopin's Story Of An Hour

Mrs. Mallards emotions were so high from day dreaming about how she was free that wend she found out that her husband wasn’t dead, it was so devastating that she died from her heart weakness “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills” (Chopin). Miss. Brill in the other hand was hit with her harsh reality by two young children “But why? Because of that stupid old thing at the end there?" asked the boy. "Why does she come here at all— who wants her?

Mrs. Mallard was a woman who had heart troubles. In the story it says “two white slender hands,” this tells us that she does not have a job and that she doesn’t do much work. Form what the narrator tells us; it seems that she has a lot of people that care about her. The narrator tells us that “great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible.” She had a husband that worked on railroads. There are many hints that tell us that Mrs. Mallard is suffering in her marriage. She said that “she loved him sometimes, often she had not. What did it matter?” This tells us that he must have been good to her but it doesn’t confirm that happy marriage. We also see that it’s suffering because eventually, Mrs. Mallard becomes happy because she is freed from her marriage. It’s like it made her a whole new person. It says that “she arose at length and opened the door to her sister’s importunities. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of victory.” This lets us know she knows now that she is free.

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

However, the story ends with Mrs Mallard’s freedom being ripped away from her as she dies from shock upon seeing her husband walk through the door. When the doctors come to pronounce her dead, they said “she had died of heart disease, … the joy that kills”. This is foreshadowed that the beginning of the story when it is said that Mrs Mallard “was afflicted with heart trouble”. Also this use of irony suggests how the male ideology of the doctors is foolish and misplaced.

Mrs. Mallard is a woman that is suffering in marriage. We realize that she was not very optimistic about her married life. The night prior to the "death" of her husband, she had quietly prayed for her life to be short. She had reached a point of disillusionment and would gladly welcome death as an option out of the marriage. When she learns that her husband had perished in the train accident, she first reacts by

Upon hearing the news, Mrs. Mallard is overwhelmed with grief, which swiftly turned into hope. Mrs. Mallard’s reaction upon receiving the news of her husband 's death is considered to be unusually by society’s standards. In the beginning of the story it is revealed that Mrs, Mallard suffers heart problems; however, when it is revealed that her husband is dead her heart is relieved. She was thrilled that she was able to be her own person again. It was revealed through her reflection on her marriage that she “had loved him - sometimes” (16). Mrs. Mallard overcame is quick to overcome her grief after the realization that she has been set free of her horrible marriage. As a married woman, Mrs. Mallard is miserable, but as a widow she feels a sense of relief that she is free of her marital vows. At the end of the story Mrs. Mallard dies of a failing heart which it ironic because typically a woman would be filled with joy to find out

Mrs. Mallard had, "in that brief moment of illumination"(15), stumbled upon a truth: she was now her own person, free from the confines of her husband. She had loved her husband, "sometimes"(15), but that didn't matter: "What could love ....count for in the face of theis possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being! THE theme of the story unfolds at this point: Mrs. Mallard, through the death of her husband, is able to experience the joy of the realization

Summary: Mrs. Mallard just heard the news that her husband had died and she does not know how to take it. She is devastated, and she is emotionally and physically tired of all of the grief that has overcome her.

Her husband’s friend, Richards, remembering that Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble, tries to block her from the view of the door, in case she sees her husband and tries to make it so Mrs. Mallard doesn’t see him, in case it gave her heart trouble. They wanted to sit her down and explain to her what had happened and that there was a mistake in the telegram and that her husband was in fact, alive. But needless to say, Richards was too late and Mrs. Mallard saw her husband, alive and well and from all the back and forth emotions, she suffered from a heart attack and died.

One item of symbolism used in the story is Mrs. Mallards heart trouble. In the beginning of the story it was stated that Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble and that her peers were taking great precautions while attempting to deliver the news of her husband's death. It was then stated "with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once. " At this point, it is seen that her heart problem has a symbolic representation towards her marriage.

When she goes in her room alone, she unveils her true emotions. The setting shows comfort and indicates that she feels safe. The "open window" symbolises her new beginning and she fills her mind with fantasies of freedom. "She would have no one follow her" indicates that she had only her room to retreat to and it is from this place that she is able to look out at the world. The metaphor "delicious breath of rain", the "peddler", "a distant song" and the sparrows are all symbolical of spring which represents new hope for a better life for Mrs Mallard.

(654) It is quite apparent that Mrs. Mallard was struggling to fight back certain feelings about her husband?s supposed death. Although she is at first sad, she slowly begins to realize that the death of her husband can mean a number of great things for her. As the story progresses Mrs. Mallard eventually solves her internal conflict by accepting her husband?s death as a gift.

At the end of the story, Mrs. Mallard’s husband walked through her front door in the flesh, but Mrs. Mallard’s heart could not handle the excitement. The

The open window was a curse to Mrs. Mallard, because before sitting at the it on the day of her husband’s death, she did not know what it meant to have the basic human right of freedom. “She was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window,” and she certainly must have become addicted to it. One cannot taste the full extent of life, the possibilities that await outside the open window on a rainy day, and then simply be expected to return to content confinement. It has been said that ignorance is bliss, and Mrs. Mallard was living in ignorance to what life could be without her husband. Her life simply was as it was, and in the time period during which she lived, there wasn’t any way of changing it, no purpose in dreaming dreams

Next, Mrs. Mallard was a woman who suffered from the times where women were treated with less value and importance. She lost her own life because rejoice at her husband’s tragedy. Her uncontrollable desire to be free made her become a frivolous woman, who let his personal longing’s end with his own life. When she realized that her husband was alive all his plans vanished. Her happiness was a temporary happiness which lasted less than an hour.