Summary
Mrs. Mallard, a young, pretty woman who had heart
problems is unaware that her husband had just died in a terrible railroad
accident. Her sister, Josephine, along with one of her husband’s friends
Richards, go to break the news to Mrs. Mallard. When Josephine finally broke
the news to her sister, Mrs. Mallard went to her room in tears, and wanted to
be alone. She sat in a large comfortable chair facing a window. As she looked
out the window at every little feature outside including the smell, Mrs.
Mallard was overcome with an indescribable joy; she told herself repeatedly
that she was “free”. The reader can only assume that Mrs. Mallard was often put
down by her husband and possibly abused by him. When she emerges from her room, Mrs. Mallard has come to terms with
her husband’s death and is embracing life as she never had before. But at that
very moment Brently Mallard walks through the door and had no idea a crash had
even occurred, as Josephine and Richards run toward Mr. Mallard, in amazement Mrs.
Mallard dies of heart failure, to do her overwhelming joy.
Reader
Response
This was such a weird
story! I thought Mrs. Mallard was dying when she went to her room, and that she
was having like a spirit like encounter with her dead body as a spirit. The
story definitely had a cool twist of fate.
I liked how Mrs., Mallard was finally at peace and happy that her
husband was dead, only to die a few moments after her husband arrived home. The
irony in this story was just ridiculous, in a good way. I love stories that
have such powerful irony like this one did I also like stories that have a turn
of events and this story had not just a twist, like the majority of stories do,
but two twists which really worked for the story. I also enjoyed the voice as
well as the tone in this story, it was well written.
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