Joy that kills, that’s kind of ironic huh? I will be honest I had to read this story more than once to fully understand it, because the end had me really saying what the heck. At first I thought that Mrs. Mallard was sad about her husband dying, which would be normal, but then I realized that she felt relived and maybe a little bit excited. Like many of the other women we have read about Mrs. Mallard feels trapped in her marriage and doesn’t feel she can live her life to the fulles. She now had the courage to go out and start her “new” life as a free independent woman. That didn’t have to live up to anybody’s expectations, but as Mrs. Mallard walked down the stairs a free woman, the sight of her not so dead husband stopped her dead in her tracks, literally. I agree with Sarah when she said that Mrs. Mallards longing for joy is what killed her, because she knew she could never have it if she lived. So when she died ultimately she was set free.
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