Discuss Discuss How Mrs. Mallards Behavior

NameCourse instructorCourse DateDiscuss how Mrs. Mallard’s behavior in “The Story of an Hour” directly contradicted the roles/norms established for women during the 19th century.In “the story of an hour” by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard has a heart disease, so everyone is tiptoeing around her trying to find a way to tell her that her husband died in an accident. However, when she is finally told, she has conflicting emotions. She expresses grief at Mr. Mallard’s death and also relief at the prospects of her freedom. Mr. Mallard loved his wife, and she even says: “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead” (par. 13). Women in the 19th century were bound to their husband’s status in society. The loss of a husband wasn’t usually received with relief but great sadness. Mrs. Mallard saw the death of her husband as a chance at freedom. Her marriage to Mr. Mallard seems to be restricting her so with the passing away of her husband, she felt free and was filled with an overpowering joy that in the