Short Story Of Mrs. Mallard

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The story tells the tragedy of a woman and her relief after going through her husband death. By little info, but great detail the story shows how Mrs. Mallard live her life together with her husband. The story was written in 1894, a time when women didn't have the same rights as today. The author view toward marriage shows that love can be a beautiful thing, but there is always that attachment and we can’t do much about it. We can’t be ourselves all the time more specifically we are not free to do the things that we would love to do because of commitment.
In Mrs. Mallard case is more like she is imprison in her house. She is bound to her husband, which surely is the one controlling her actions or deterring her from doing activities that she would like to do. Back in the day men had more opportunities than women. They could work, receive more appropriate education while women were …show more content…

Mallard shut herself in her room. While in her room, mourning her supposedly dead husband she goes through a mixture of emotions. She feels sad because of her deceased husband, then its a felling of dread that something is coming her freedom. After realizing this and accepting it she becomes full of joy,
and now the thoughts of her dead husband are gone and replace for what is coming ahead. The author convey how no attachment to someone else is how we truly feel liberated and that bring us joy.
In today’s time this kind of situation are less likely to happen. People now can get married and get divorce in no time. In those times arrange marriages were the norm something that doesn't exist anymore thank God. Even in our time people that get married because they love each other they end up braking up. This goes back to what the author was referring to and that is that people are not the same once they are attach. The sense of freedom is taken and now freedom is a right to everyone unlike back in those

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