Mrs. Mallard, whose first name is not revealed until after we learn that her husband has passed on, has a life that is typical of women in the days of the story. She is subservient of her husband. She does what her husband wants her to do when he wants her to do it. Answering back and doing as she pleases is something that is not done. Although this story is written by a woman, she is attempting to tell the story, as it would be set not as how the reader would want it to be read.

Mrs. Mallard is afraid of being alone; but then again who is not? She has lived the life of a willing and able wife for so long and the idea of being alone scares her. When Mrs. Mallard first hears about her husband's death, she weeps not for him, but the fear of the future. When she looks out the window in her bedroom, she looks toward the future with fear. The future can be a scary place for any

Mrs. Mallard has fear in the worst time of her life. She is now seeing her future flash before her and seeing that her new life is now gone as quickly as it came and now she is going to have to go back to the life she lived before her husbands death. The mere fact that he is alive I am sure filled her with fear. A new kind of fear, the fear of going back to her "previous" life of servitude.

An important aspect of Mrs. Mallard and her fear would be to address the time that this story took place in and who wrote the story. The first time I read this story, I was shocked to see that it was written by Kate Chopin seeming that she was a woman. To compare Kate Chopin's marriage and Mrs. Mallard's you wonder if her life was happy. Since she was widowed and she was left to take care of her six children and the business. To think that Mrs. Mallard really wouldn't have that much to be responsible for except herself.

one. For Mrs. Mallard, it is freedom that she has not had. Freedom can be scary and it proves to be just that in this story. Her freedom is shortened by the appearance of her husband.

A question that comes to mind after reading this story, is that could someone really die of such a surprise? After all, she only thought that her husband was dead for a matter of minutes or perhaps an hour. And yet at the sheer sight of him, she has a heart attack and dies? An authors note at the end of the st

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