This aspect and way of thinking portrays the constant change of view society has on women. People who were brought up in the same time period as Mrs. Mallard may not have viewed her reaction as unsympathetic as someone who has been brought up in a later generation would. On a per

There are numerous amounts of causes there could be for Mrs. Mallard’s heart disease. She was not happy with her marriage regardless of the reason for her dying. There is one line however that shows otherwise that she did, at one point, love her husband: “It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long” (Chopin 12). This thought shows that she apparently was scared for a little bit of leading a long, lonely life without her husband.

sonal note, her reaction to her husband’s death is selfish, unnatural, insensitive, and heartless. It is apparent that she was not content with her marriage because if she were, she would not be overwhelmed with happiness over his death. In first finding out of Mr. Mallard’s death, she weeps and goes off into her room by herself to sob. Then she suddenly gets a feeling of freedom inside her and she felt guilty at first for feeling this way and tried to fight it, but then she just let it take her over.

She realized that there would be no one for her to live for beside herself and there was no reason for her to feel a sense of inferiority.

People of different ages and sex interpret this story in different matters. Society today has molded the way the younger generation thinks and acts. The way the story is interpreted all depends on the way you grew up with morals and your feelings and experiences with marriage. Society’s expectations play a huge role in Mrs. Mallard’s feelings and the reader’s interpretation.

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