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." From reading the story it is not told to us the type of marriage Mrs.
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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 much. A lot of thoughts can be put into perception especially where Mrs. Mallard says, "She had loved him – sometimes. Often she had not"? How is it possible to love someone only "sometimes" but not all the time? It seems that in most or the ideal committed marriage, where two people really love each other and even when they're having problems their love would still be there. So, either Mr. Mallard was doing something bad occasionally to Mrs. Mallard, which would make her stop loving him, or her love for him just wasn't serious in the first place. Any love she had for him has been lost or has shy away to this improvement of her "self-assertion" that she is feeling and remembering who she is and who she can be, once she realizes this it is by far the "strongest" she's ever felt. That may not be the only reason why Mrs. Mallard reacts the way she does. Any man who was in Mr. Mallard’s position could have also been a burden to her freedom: “There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination (67).” With this statement it indirectly gives Mrs. Mallard an opportunity to criticize her husband by, saying his influence that he
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 much. A lot of thoughts can be put into perception especially where Mrs. Mallard says, "She had loved him – sometimes. Often she had not"? How is it possible to love someone only "sometimes" but not all the time? It seems that in most or the ideal committed marriage, where two people really love each other and even when they're having problems their love would still be there. So, either Mr. Mallard was doing something bad occasionally to Mrs. Mallard, which would make her stop loving him, or her love for him just wasn't serious in the first place. Any love she had for him has been lost or has shy away to this improvement of her "self-assertion" that she is feeling and remembering who she is and who she can be, once she realizes this it is by far the "strongest" she's ever felt. That may not be the only reason why Mrs. Mallard reacts the way she does. Any man who was in Mr. Mallard’s position could have also been a burden to her freedom: “There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination (67).” With this statement it indirectly gives Mrs. Mallard an opportunity to criticize her husband by, saying his influence that he