1. Consider the persons who have delivered any news to Louise. What similarities do they all share?
They all took, “great care to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands.”
2. The story seems to take place in two very distinct settings. Describe how the settings differ and how they seem to affect Louise Mallard.
One setting is the atmosphere is grim because her husband has died. The other is vibrant with, “the notes of a distant song which some was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.”
3. Louise receives the news of her husband’s death and locks herself in her room. Describe the epiphany she experiences while she is locked in her room.
Mrs. Mallard see an “open window” and through this she …show more content…
People and birds are singing, “patches of blue sky” are breaking through the gray and are creating happiness.
5. How does the imagery in Louise’s room help to develop a feeling or mood of a bright future to come to Louise?
Louise resists at first but ultimately allows herself to be herself, instead of being someone that someone else wants. The “vacant stare” is replaced by eyes that are “keen and bright.”
6. Is there any evidence of her husband’s abuse? Why do you believe Louise Mallard feels repressed?
Mr. Mallard represents all men. She is repressed by the standards of the time, which woman are obedient to their husbands. She cannot be the person that she wants to be. The “vacant stare” is replaced by eyes that are “keen and bright.”
7. How does Josephine’s role differ from Louise’s in this male-dominated society?
Josephine obeys and Louise rebels. Louise is drinking in a “very elixir of life”, a potion that restores the health, as she thinks of spring and summer seasons of fertility and growth.
8. What is ironic about the doctor’s statement regarding Louise’s death: “she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills”
They all took, “great care to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands.”
2. The story seems to take place in two very distinct settings. Describe how the settings differ and how they seem to affect Louise Mallard.
One setting is the atmosphere is grim because her husband has died. The other is vibrant with, “the notes of a distant song which some was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.”
3. Louise receives the news of her husband’s death and locks herself in her room. Describe the epiphany she experiences while she is locked in her room.
Mrs. Mallard see an “open window” and through this she …show more content…
People and birds are singing, “patches of blue sky” are breaking through the gray and are creating happiness.
5. How does the imagery in Louise’s room help to develop a feeling or mood of a bright future to come to Louise?
Louise resists at first but ultimately allows herself to be herself, instead of being someone that someone else wants. The “vacant stare” is replaced by eyes that are “keen and bright.”
6. Is there any evidence of her husband’s abuse? Why do you believe Louise Mallard feels repressed?
Mr. Mallard represents all men. She is repressed by the standards of the time, which woman are obedient to their husbands. She cannot be the person that she wants to be. The “vacant stare” is replaced by eyes that are “keen and bright.”
7. How does Josephine’s role differ from Louise’s in this male-dominated society?
Josephine obeys and Louise rebels. Louise is drinking in a “very elixir of life”, a potion that restores the health, as she thinks of spring and summer seasons of fertility and growth.
8. What is ironic about the doctor’s statement regarding Louise’s death: “she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills”