... celebrating her own life, a focus she has not been able to have until his death. Mrs Mallard's initial reaction on hearing of her husband's death is one of release rather than grief, "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms." Her ... is no longer acting on instinct, she is now acting with reason. It is in her room that she considers and rationalizes her feelings in an attempt to understand her own emotions. She sits down "pressed down by a ph...

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