Mrs Mallard

Mrs. Mallard’s realization How would you feel if your significant other were to pass away? Most of the times the death of someone close is never a good thing, most people’s reactions would be the feeling of sadness, shock or denial that such tragedy has happened. In the short story “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin the character Louise Mallard’s has received the news that her husband has died in a railroad accident, the news was told to her in a gently manner due to her heart condition. Mrs. Mallard’s initial reaction to the death of her husband was the feeling of sadness and disbelief as she wept. As the story continues she ends up in a room by herself, while she’s alone her thoughts and feelings towards the situation start heading towards another direction. At first she doesn’t know what these strange feelings are she just feels that something is coming, as she realizes what the thing is she tries to beat those feelings and push them aside. By the end of the story Mrs. Mallard discovers and accepts her true inner feelings, them being that she’s happier without her husband and that she has new freedom. Shortly after she realizes that she has complete freedom with a whole new future ahead of her, her husband then walks in the door and wasn’t part of the railroad accident and she dies. Mrs. Mallard is a dynamic character due to the transformation of her feelings and emotions throughout the story. Throughout the story Mrs. Mallards feelings towards her husband’s death change drastically. At the beginning of the short story Mrs. Mallard’s feelings towards hearing the death of her husband were the typical ones you’d get out of any person who cared and lost someone close, she was sad. For instance when she’s first told that her husband dies the author Kate Chopin writes “with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms”. This shows that Mrs. Mallard was shocked with disbelief; she