s. Mallard may be repressed, she is still young and has time to end her repression. As the story begins it states "Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her gently as possible the news of her husband's death". This is used as foreshadowing of Mrs. Mallard's imminent death. After receiving the news of her husband's death, Mrs. Mallard "wept at once, with sudden wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone." The "storm of grief" represents how bad and dark it is now that her husband has died, but in the next paragraph, Mrs. Mallard begins to notice the great changes that will come about soon. "There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair." The open window shows how thing are beginning to become clear to Mrs. Mallard and the "roomy" armchair shows how open and free she is now that her husband h

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Approximate Word count = 625
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)