Kate Chopin, offers a decent amount of detailed information within the first couple of paragraphs. However, there is still a large quantity of information, about the characters’, left out of the first two paragraphs that the audience, including myself, would like to acknowledge. For instance, how severe is Mrs. Mallard's heart condition? Is the marriage between Mrs. and Mr. Mallard healthy or bleak? What were the details of Brently Mallard’s death? I presume that Chopin left these important details out of the opening paragraphs because she didn’t want the audience to assume the sudden ending of the story, making it predictable. If the audience had known that Mr. Mallard was in a stable condition and that he was an unloving husband, then the
