Mrs. Mallard’s Change of Behavior in “Story of an Hour”

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Mallard was, “pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul” (46). Her soul was in fear and pain because she didn’t know anything other than being someone’s wife. . But what we don’t expect to happen to Mrs. Mallard’s behavior is; for it to change to the complete opposite.
Once Mrs. Mallard came into her room, it was introduced to us that “there stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair” (46). Here, we are being introduced to a different emotion. The author starts to turn the story from sad and negative, to more positive and reassuring. This is because from the sentence we see that, “a comfortable, roomy armchair” symbolizes comfort and security. And the “open window” symbolizes connection to the world, in other words; life. The detailed descriptions and symbolisms that follow after, describe the new, positive turn in the story more. In paragraph five, “She could see in the open square before her house the tops ...

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