This story is one of the best short stories I have read thus far. The reason I feel like this story deserves the award for best short story is because it speaks volumes in liberation and also foreshadowing. Mrs. Mallard was on one hand sad because her husband had died but yet felt liberated that she was now “free”, which can only describe what a women who was suppressed or abused in some kind of way would feel if her …show more content…
It basically describes exactly what society does to women every single day. One minute they are telling them “yes go be whoever you want to be” and then the next minute it’s “oh you can’t do that because you are a woman”. This just shows how inequality is in this world. In the time this story was written women had it even harder to be an equal to men. Maybe this tale was not just foreshadowing Mrs. Mallard’s untimely death, but also the fight to come for women in general. A fight that women still face to this day! More than just women but society in general as well, so many different groups of people fight for equality because they have been told they can’t do certain because of race, gender, and sexual