Mrs Mallard Dynamic
“Knowing that Mrs.Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death”(Chopin 278). This is the first sentence in “ The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and in this sentence we can tell an already broken women will be grieving. Mrs.Mallard is the protagonist of this story and as well as a dynamic character who is changing rapidly.
Mrs. Mallard actually changes twice throughout the course of this story. The first time she is told about her husband's “death” by her sister Josephine. Mrs. Mallard immediately started to weep when she is told the news. “She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams” (Chopin 278). …show more content…
“And yet she had loved him-sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being” (Chopin 279). This quote shows how she really felt about her husband. The main reason she felt better though was because she realized she was free to do as she please without being controlled by her husband. She actually She is so excited to live the rest of her life with this new freedom and starts planning how she would spend her time.
Josephine, Mrs. Mallard’s sister, asks her to come out of the room. Mrs.Mallard eventually comes out. They are walking down the stairs and Mrs. Mallard is fantasizing about her future when her husband comes through the door. She died on the spot after she saw her husband alive. “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills” (Chopin 280). She didn’t die from joy we know though she died of disappoint of not having the freedom she thought she
Mrs. Mallard actually changes twice throughout the course of this story. The first time she is told about her husband's “death” by her sister Josephine. Mrs. Mallard immediately started to weep when she is told the news. “She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams” (Chopin 278). …show more content…
“And yet she had loved him-sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being” (Chopin 279). This quote shows how she really felt about her husband. The main reason she felt better though was because she realized she was free to do as she please without being controlled by her husband. She actually She is so excited to live the rest of her life with this new freedom and starts planning how she would spend her time.
Josephine, Mrs. Mallard’s sister, asks her to come out of the room. Mrs.Mallard eventually comes out. They are walking down the stairs and Mrs. Mallard is fantasizing about her future when her husband comes through the door. She died on the spot after she saw her husband alive. “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills” (Chopin 280). She didn’t die from joy we know though she died of disappoint of not having the freedom she thought she