Furthermore, Chopin also reveals how many women deceive themselves about the state of her happiness. Mrs. Mallard has been married for many years. Up until know, she has been discontented. Chopin describes Mrs. Mallard’s face, “whose lines bespoke a certain repression.” (line 24) Her husband is not an abusive or violent man. She has no specific reason for discontentment. In fact, she loves her husband and feels a certain amount of grief: “ she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that hand never looked save with love upon her…” (line 41). Yet she feels this overwhelming sense of freedom at the prospect of living as single woman. Women of Chopins time never expressed such a sentiment, and men probably never imagined that a
