Story Of An Hour Mrs Mallard Character

Mrs. Mallard is a character who takes on many forms and emotions throughout this short story. I found myself constantly picturing many different images of, and emotions for her throughout this story. We are told she “was afflicted with a heart trouble” (174). So Initially I pictured a very week feeble woman with gray hair and lots of wrinkles. I initially feel a lot of sympathy for this woman as she is already suffering from heart problems, now she has lost her husband. I soon learned this is just my own opinions on the woman and she is in fact “young, with a fair, calm face” (174).
Once Mrs. Mallard gets through the initial shock phase of grief we learn a lot more about the person she is. We also learn about her relationship and her overall attitude about the life she is living thus far. I was immediately intrigued by the details that Chopin put into the story that Mrs. Mallard notices upon entering her bedroom. “She notes of a distant song
The author sets the stage in such a way I feel like Mrs. Mallard is going to possibly go insane, but what comes out surprised me. Instead of losing her mind in grief, she finds herself. I find this to be very pivotal in explaining her relationship with Mr. Mallard. Chopin describes a woman who is feeling oppressed in her marriage, and overall not happy with her life. I feel like many women can relate to this feeling. Often women lose their identities when they get married because they lose their name and their own purpose. Knowing that this story was written in 1896 I feel like Mrs. Mallard was born in the wrong century. She is a modern woman stuck in a time when a woman could not be their own person. Their identities were with their husbands. This is exactly what she is feeling when she says “Free! Body and soul free!”. (175) She is realizing she now can become the person she has always wanted to