Mallard was seeing and feeling while in the room. .
The conflict in the rapid change of feelings is but one example of the internal struggle that Louise is experiencing. Upon hearing the news, the main character experiences an extreme range of emotions. Starting from when she "wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment," (Chopin 496) to when she "carried herself.like a Goddess of Victory." (Chopin 497) Another example is her stating that she "loved him-sometimes." (Paragraph 15) The main character clearly verbalizes this internal battle, and the guilt associated with it, as she is "striving to beat it back with her will," (Chopin 496) while describing the discomfort at the feelings of hope and happiness she is experiencing. The main character is obviously trying to resolve the feelings she is experiencing as opposed to the feelings that society would expect her to have. The basic idea of conflict can be clearly seen in the simple irony of this story. Her husband dies so she can finally live, but he actually lives, causing her to die. Louise Mallard expresses this concept quite simply when "She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday that she thought with a shudder that life might be long." (Chopin 497) The story tells of the main character having heart troubles, and because of this her sister, Josephine, and her husband's friend Richard are apprehensive to tell her about her husbands death, yet it is when she finds her husband is alive that she dies of "the joy that kills." (Chopin 497) It is quite apparent that she did not die from hearing of the death of her husband, but dies from the freedom that she had for the past hour being yanked back from her and the realization that she will be thrown back into her previous mundane existence.
This story was written in the 19th century, a time when a woman's role was to be the partner to their husband. Women had no right to vote, no right to own property and were their husbands property.
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