To be married with a man that is dominating and making one’s life miserable, is not a life worth to live.
Mrs. Mallard has a dominating husband and in this essay, we are going to see how Mrs. Mallard is going to be married and unhappy but also be happy and free.
”Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble1:” Mrs. Mallard’s heart is weak, so everybody has to treat her gently and carefully. According to a newspaper office, Mrs. Mallard’s husband was killed in a train accident. Mr. Mallard’s friend, Mr. Richards was in the newspaper office when he saw the report. He saw Mr. Mallard’s name on the list of those people who had died in the train accident. Mr. Richards handed over the sad news to Mrs. Mallard’s sister, Josephine. Josephine informed in broken sentences to Mrs. Mallard about her husband’s death. Mrs. Mallard sobbed in her sister’s arm and went upstairs to another room alone. The room had an open window, and a comfortable roomy armchair2. Mrs. Mallard gazed out of the window and realized that she was a free woman and the way she described everything outside the window, seemed like she could see a new beginning, an opportunity to freedom. Example from the short story: “she could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves:”3 “And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter!:” this quote shows that the relationship between Mr and Mrs. Mallard wasn’t perfect and hasn’t been romantic. It seemed that Mrs. Mallard doesn’t really love her husband. She had mourned for her husband’s death but she also predict many years of freedom that would belong to her entirely, she would gladly open her arms out to them in