At the beginning of the story, we are told that Louise Mallard has a heart condition. This is the first sign that something might happen and is great foreshadowing of things ahead to come. Since this is a short story it gets right to the climax. Richards, who is a friend of Brently Mallard, walks through to the door to alert Louise and her sister Josephine that Brently had been killed in a horrible train accident. This is the first dialogue we have seen in the story thus far. Louise then comes into shock and starts to cry. She immediately ran upstairs and shut the door behind her. After seeing this reaction by Louise

, I immediately begin to feel that she truly loved her husband and was devastated by this tragedy.

After a good solid hour is up, Josephine comes up the stairs to her bedroom door and asks Louise to come out. She says she will make herself ill in there alone. Louise replied, “Go away.” Because the author had said that she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window. Which made me think that she was dreaming of what will lie ahead of her and smiling to herself that she is free and can do whatever she pleases. These days will be her own. At this point we have more foreshadowing: Louise breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. After reading that I began to wonder what might happen.

Louise sits in a chair facing the window for an hour in her room. She had been staring off into the beautiful spring life and the blue sky trying to come out. After she was done sobbing, the author says how she began to think intelligently into her future. Louise began to whisper such things like, “Free, body and

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