Topic > Feminism in Of An Hour by Kate Chopin - 1636

Mallard should have been with her husband by her side giving him advice she wasn't. From here also came the news that she had been told that her husband had died and she was happy, she felt free. Her sister thought that Mrs. Mallard was crying in her room or was very sad, but this was not the case. “He said it over and over again under his breath: Free, free, free!” (Kate Chopin's view on death and freedom in the story of An Hour, 1). This was unexpected and strange in many ways. It was expected that Mrs. Mallard would react differently than she actually did. This means that perhaps during the years she spent with her husband she would have become fond of him but she wasn't. “Her sister Josephine, reminded us of her conventional thinking that women should cling to their husbands” (Kate Chopin's View on Death and Freedom in the story Of An Hour,1). After that Mrs. Mallard wanted to spend time alone in the room, no one really knew how she felt in reality. He had a conflict in his life. Mrs. Mallard had her own experiences and thoughts. Love, freedom and marriage were his things. Maybe she was in pain and got those ideas stuck in her mind and felt all the peace she wanted. He wasn't really aware that he was between his world and the real world he faced. This leads her to experience that sometimes she wouldn't love her husband, sometimes she would and it was all mixed with different feelings and emotions. When she saw her husband at the door she cried, but it was of happiness, not of sadness and it was a rare death. We readers feel that seeing her husband shocked and distressed her when she sees her husband. In the end the doctor said something different, saying that joy killed Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard's conflict between life and death becomes so irreconcilable that she ultimately dies of heart disease when she is told that she will see her husband return home alive rather than perish in the train wreck. "(Kate