Selfishly Happy

"Selfishly Happy"

"Free! Body and soul, free!" Is this something you shout when you discover the possible death of your husband?! Mrs. Mallard a young unhealthy woman spoke those immortal words to herself so selfishly and with such bliss. "And yet she had loved him-sometimes," a bit sympathetic to the situation but It seemed as if the thought of her husband Richard being a gentle, kind man left her mind briefly. All her life she was controlled by a man, leading her life, first her father now her husband. All her life she worried and stressed that as a woman she wasn't able to be independent or do things on her own especially if married. Being controlled all the time can take a toll on you and become stressful, maybe that's what caused her heart troubles. If Mr. Mallard was as kind as Mrs. Mallard described "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," then why was she so unhappy and uncertain on being sympathetic or blissful about his death. Mrs. Mallard finally felt free of her own life and was engaged in the thought. Over whelmed by the thought of her husband's possible death she began to go into a heart attack little did Mrs. Mallard know her husband was alive. As she died in their house her husband Richard walked into the tragedy. I guess dying was Mrs. Mallard known as Louise way of being free though very selfish of her she never thought about missing her husband, never thought or wondered if it was a possibility that he survived