When I first began reading the story I believed Mrs. Mallard to be an older woman. I thought this because we are told that she is afflicted with a heart trouble. I realize that having heart trouble does not ultimately mean old, but that is just the way our minds work. I was surprised to find that Mrs. Mallard was actually a young woman, described as having “a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression.” She was young in age, but did she feel old? Did she feel that her life meant nothing? We find out the answers to these questions as we read on.

Mrs. Mallard is given the news of her husbands’ death from her

I wonder how the story would be different if it had been Mr. Mallard telling it? Would he see his wife as having a sense of freedom? Was he unhappy with their marriage? What if the author of the story was a man? Then how would the story be different? Would a male author have the same feelings as Kate Chopin? Probably not, but it would be quite interesting to see this story from someone else’s perspective.

sister, Josephine. She reacts just as anyone else would, she weeps immediately, and is stricken with grief. She falls into her sister’s arms for comfort. Then as she composes herself, she goes to her room alone. It is at this point that the story takes a strange twist. Mrs. Mallard sees the blue sky out her window. She feels the breeze flowing in from the outside. She smells the rain that was still in the air. We are told that she feels something coming towards her. She waits fearfully. It is “too subtle and elusive to name.” What could it be wonders the reader? Then it hits us unexpectedly. The thing coming towards her is her freed

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