In the book The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, Mrs.Mallard faces two conflicts; one of which being external and the other internal. Today I will be telling you all about the internal conflict she faces and how she deals with it. Mrs.Mallard had a desire to be independent and when she heard her husband had passed was she finally free at last?
Even by the early 1900’s women were still treated like house maids; clean, cook, and take care of the kids. Mrs.Mallard couldn't quite take it anymore, instead she continued to follow society’s rules for women. After the news about her late husband had been received at the telegram, Richard, Mrs.Mallard’s, husband’s, good friend told Mrs.Mallard’s sister Josephine, to give her the news about …show more content…
She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.” After that she went to her room to be alone and not be bothered whatsoever. There she sat in an overstuffed armchair in her bedroom staring out the window trying to accept what had just happened, or was she strangely okay with it? Mrs. Mallard had these thoughts “She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will..”. As she was sitting alone, dark thoughts began to posses her, “free, free, free!”. Who says that after a loved one especially a partner dies? Mrs.Mallard began to feel relaxed over every inch of her body.“She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.” who would she live for she thought, who would take care of her? "Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering”. had this surprising excited feeling inside of her that would alter her life she was free, free forever, she could finally do what she wants to do finally live the life she wants to live independently. “And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion
Even by the early 1900’s women were still treated like house maids; clean, cook, and take care of the kids. Mrs.Mallard couldn't quite take it anymore, instead she continued to follow society’s rules for women. After the news about her late husband had been received at the telegram, Richard, Mrs.Mallard’s, husband’s, good friend told Mrs.Mallard’s sister Josephine, to give her the news about …show more content…
She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.” After that she went to her room to be alone and not be bothered whatsoever. There she sat in an overstuffed armchair in her bedroom staring out the window trying to accept what had just happened, or was she strangely okay with it? Mrs. Mallard had these thoughts “She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will..”. As she was sitting alone, dark thoughts began to posses her, “free, free, free!”. Who says that after a loved one especially a partner dies? Mrs.Mallard began to feel relaxed over every inch of her body.“She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.” who would she live for she thought, who would take care of her? "Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering”. had this surprising excited feeling inside of her that would alter her life she was free, free forever, she could finally do what she wants to do finally live the life she wants to live independently. “And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion