Louise Mallard In The Story Of An Hour

In “The Story of an Hour “Louise Mallard is married to her husband Brent Mallard and Louise acts in a surprising manner of Joy once their friend Richards finds out and tells her that her husband Brent has died in a horrible accident. Mrs. Mallard has come alive after finding out the tragic news of her husband dying. The narrator of the story describes her, physically, as "young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength" (67). When the narrator describes the "lines" of Mrs. Mallard's face gives the impression of her holding her true feelings inside and that she's full of "repression." I am not sure exactly what she is hiding but I have ideas of what it could be. Mrs. Mallard has not let her feelings be known inside or even express what she has not been saying. Also the characters tend to care for her before their own selves because they view her as weak but the narrator says Mrs. Mallard has "a certain strength." …show more content…
Mallard had with her husband. Mrs. Mallard describes her husband as a nice guy and a overall loving man to her. The descriptions that Mrs. Mallards says does not add up to her exciting relief to live on after he dies: “And yet she had loved him – sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being?” (67) This is a weird way to show concepts like love, "the unsolved mystery," to a committed partnership that really doesn't matter to her very