Mrs. Mallard one of the many woman from that period was truly seeking for freedom. She never shows her true feelings. What were her true feelings? Mrs. Mallard was a married woman. She loved her husband, but at times, she did not.

Louis Mallard was a woman already facing heart problems. Taking that in factor, the news of her husband’s death, would be

The setting of the story takes place in the season of spring, in a house. After receiving the news of her husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard runs upstairs closing the door behind her. She is not sad, yet she is so happy. Happy to receive the news of her husband death. During that period of time in the late 1800’s, women were only given freedom if their spouse died. For Mrs. Mallard, even with her heart condition is full of joy with this news of her husbands. She sits in her rocking chair, looking outside of her window and dreaming about the coming future. She is swept off her feet with excitement. Mrs. Mallard looks forward to springs the summers that would approach her coming life. “Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body”( Chopin 296). The reader can only assume by reading the stated quote, how happy Mrs. Mallard feels, symbolizing her quest for freedom.

a great shock to her. At least that’s what her sister, Josephine and Richard, friend of Mr. Mallard, assumed. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept the significance”( Chopin 295). Chopin writes this sentence to illustrates the forthcoming events that we

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