In this short story, Mrs. Mallard learns of her husbands passing. Instead of going into a deep grieving process like most people would, she instead cries at once then moves on. To Mrs. Mallard the death of her husband freed her, giving her the chance to escape the confines she felt within marriage. While she acknowledges the fact that she shouldn’t think this way, she can’t help but be happy about the freedom this gives her. When her husband shows up alive she winds up dead, which shows that if she can’t be free while alive death is the only
In this short story, Mrs. Mallard learns of her husbands passing. Instead of going into a deep grieving process like most people would, she instead cries at once then moves on. To Mrs. Mallard the death of her husband freed her, giving her the chance to escape the confines she felt within marriage. While she acknowledges the fact that she shouldn’t think this way, she can’t help but be happy about the freedom this gives her. When her husband shows up alive she winds up dead, which shows that if she can’t be free while alive death is the only