The conflict in this story starts out being a woman's struggle with her husband's apparent death. When she is first confronted by her sister with the news of his death, she reacts as most people would have reacted; "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms." She continues this for a couple of minutes before retreating to her bedroom to sit in seclusion. To this point, it is still believed that the main conflict lies between her and her husband's death.

Basically, this women has had both the best day of here life and the worst day of her life on the same day. The worst day obviously got the best of her though sense she did end up dying. The antagonist being her husband and his controlling nature leads directly to the emotional and physical death of his wife. The conflict, in this story, though not clear at first proved to be more than just ordinary.

n her room, the reader begins to get some clues as to how she really feels. When she fist enters her bedroom, she is still distraught and crying. She sits down in chair and stares out the window as if to wish her life was also ended. Then she begins to see that it is spring time and things are blooming the sky is blue and the sun is out and nothing in world outside her bedroom is gloomy or sad. Her true feelings start to come out. The reader sees that she has been keeping her true feeling in because s

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