She did not want to admit that she was happy her husband was gone because she was trying to fight it but it “possessed” her, it took over her because her body knew that she was happy and finally relieved.
It stated in the text “ she was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to “possess” her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will”. Her real emotions took over her even though she didn’t want it to seem that way but that's just what it was. She finally gave up or abandoned herself once she realized she had lost the fight, and she was happy. She was surprised at what it was but she had liked it and thought to herself maybe this is something i will like or maybe this is something i will
try. So as her day went on, she was thinking about all she would finally be able to do. She was “free at last” and she was in control now. No one could take over her, no one could tell her to do anything she was finally going to become “somebody”. She reached out and tried to find who that somebody was or who she was. She doesn’t know because once again she does not have an identity, who is she? She went out and did everything on her own and tried to find out who she really was. Then, there was her husband, Brently Mallard. Her sister in shock to see him standing there when he was supposed to be “dead”. Richard was too late to try and stop her from seeing him. Later then, Mrs. Mallard had died. She did not want to see her husband alive. She was no longer free, she was no longer “a person” back to square one. She died because of her husband's life.