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Mrs Mallard Character Analysis

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Nearly everyone has heard of death killing someone else. A few examples may be Romeo and Juliet or “Where the Red Fern Grows”, but not many people have heard of life life killing someone. The example I am referring to is Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of
An Hour”. I believe Mrs. Mallard passed as a direct result of her husband Brent being alive. Mrs. Mallard suffers from heart trouble so if she were in fact truly troubled by receiving the news of her husbands death it would most definitely have an effect on her heart and health. Instead the opposite happens. When Mrs. Mallard receives the news of her husbands passing she takes it quite well. She is upset but it doesn’t effect her heart. In addition to receiving the news of her husbands death not …show more content…

She can finally live for herself as it is stated in the text.
Later in the story something things completely change. Mrs. Mallard is finally starting to calm down and out of no where her husband appears through the door. This is where her heart truly does give out. It is upon the sight of her husband Mrs. Mallard

Mark Colafranceschi
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finally does actually fall victim to her faulty heart. It wasn’t the news that her husband was alive that killed her, it was the news that he was alive. Doctors determine that she died as result of pure joy but how Mrs. Mallard reacted to her husbands death reassures us that she was in fact not relieved to see her husband alive but in fact upset and shocked. Although Mrs. Mallard was upset by the news of her husbands death she was better off without him. She knew she was better off and this is why it was so devastating to see that he was alive. She thought her life was going to change for the better but after seeing him alive she knew that her life would remain the same. Based on Mrs.
Mallards thoughts and actions it is easy to asses that it wasn’t joy she died from, instead it was the harsh realization that she wasn’t actually

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