This story was a great compilation of humor and description. The way the writer started the story was amazing. She quickly introduced Mrs. Mallard, and even quicker told the audience that she had a heart condition. After this was said in passing, the author jumped to the death of Brently Mallard. From there on the writer uses the wife to convey a broad range of emotions, everything from remorse to freedom. She starts off with extreme remorse, described as ".a paralyzed inability to accept its significance" (Chopin, 257). She sits alone and contemplates the death of her husband, thinking about the loss. The story makes a flip when the wife sits down. The author brightens up the situation with the addition of a comfy chair. The chair promises salvation and recovery. She sits down and the transformation begins, she feels something, but doesn't know what it is. The transformation is in full swing. The author gives us the image of "new spring life" (Chopin, 257), the wife begins to see the position she is in. She can now begin to live her own life. The wife attempts to refuse the good vibes she is getting, but in the back of her mind she know that she is free, she even says she is free. Finally the wife believed she was free, she could turn her life around and live it to the fullest. It was great how the author gave the wife so much hope, and when the husband walked in, boom! The reader is instantly taken back to the beginning of the story where we were alerted to the wife's heart condition. Even though I have read this story before it was still fun to read, just for the wife's reaction. Maybe nothing was her freedom, maybe she will find freedom in death. Maybe. .