Mrs. Mallard is the main character in this story and is said to have some kind of heart trouble. When I think of heart trouble, I think of an older woman who has some type of heart problem, but I don’t really focus much on it until the end of the story. Her sister Josephine is also another character who has to break bad news to Mrs. Mallard. I found it a little weird that they called the main character by her last name and with a “Mrs” title, but her sister was referred to only by her first name. This makes me think that Mrs. Mallard may be older than her sister, or

“And yet she had loved him-sometimes” (KM 72). This line shows that her freedom comes alive after the death of her husband. It isn’t that she didn’t love him, but then again it doesn’t really make me think that she was in love with him. For some reason, she wasn’t happy or free with him. She had been trapped in a marriage that made her act a different way, making her alone and dead inside. This explains her visions of the new spring life that she saw outside her window. Sad to say but her husband’s death opened up a whole new perspective for Mrs. Mallard. The second she heard the news, her life changed, and I can’t say it was for the worse. She kept repeating to herself, “Free! Body and soul free,” Until her sister interrupts her and bangs on the door trying to get her to open it (KM 73). She finally opens the door, and arm and arm they walk down the stairs together.

that her sister is not married, because using a Mrs. or Mr. is usually used by someone younger to show respect to an older person, but this still does not explain why the narrator does not refer to Mrs. Mallard by her first name, and I’m not exactly sure why she does either. Josephine has a main part in this story, because she is the one who has to tell her sister tragic news about her brother-n-law and this to me is a climax in the story.

“It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences, veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of “killed” (KM 71). The shock of hearing such tragic news is unexplainable to me. The only other way I can put it is by saying that there are a thousand things running through a person’s head when they hear such shocking information, and when that person tries to speak or say something all there is, is silence. All those thousand things no longer make sense and cannot be said out loud

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