herself through her husband’s death. Kate Chopin’s main character, Louise Mallard, is an

ordinary housewife who has a heart condition. When her husband dies in a train wreck,

her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards rush to her to break the news as

gently as possible. When the news is broken to Louise, she immediately burst into tears

and clutches her sister. After Louise calms down, she goes to her room to be by herself.

She is still very upset, sobbing every now and then, but as she looks through the window,

she is disturbed by her feelings, “this thing that was approaching to possess her”(Trotter

150). She is beginning to feel the freedom of being able “to live for herself”(Trotter 153)

instead of her husband. She tries to reject this feeling at first, but then starts to give into it

until it is a “monstrous joy”(Trotter 156) that consumes her. When she finally leav

marriage and how women were treated. The story is excellent, however, for opening the

she has already turned to a female world. After her she calmes down, she goes to her

is a brilliant work, that presents a womans cry of joy over liberation from male

trainwreck that was supposed to have killed Louise’s husband. Kate resented her father

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