... same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms." Her immediate weeping is a natural reaction of Mrs Mallard. It is not how she decides to act, it is her direct emotional response to the news. In this weeping Mrs Mallard is acting on her own basic feelings and this shows that her ... coming to terms with something. The reference to her as a child reinforces that she is immature in some ways, with the process one of her growing up and coming to understand herself. It is in the next passage that Mrs Mallard...

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• Grade Level: High School