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She uses imagery to show how she imagined her husband, dead and cold. She also implies hat he never truly loved her.

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This piece of text uses the oxymoron "unsolved mystery" to described how she felt about love and compare it to how she felt about freedom.

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"What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possesion of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!"

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Peyton Wulf, Aidan Carmona, Hector Heredia, Mia Fortunatti

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She uses a metaphor about her spreading her arms out to freedom to emphasize that she is very welcoming and fond of the idea of independence.

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"She knew she ould weep again once she saw the kind, tender hands foldede in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead."

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"But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her completely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome

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Mrs. Mallard was devastated when she heard that her husband was killed in a railroad disaster.  For awhile, Mrs. Mallard was grieving and wished to be left alone, but soon she came to a realization.  She had realized that she was free from her marriage, which had been controlling and left her feeling powerless. She was filled with joy, imagining the many years of freedom to come.  Soon after recieving the news, her husband showed up at the front door, as if nothing had happened. Mrs. Mallard realized he hadn't died and her independence was gone, and because she suffered frim heart problems, the overwhelming disapointment was too much and she had a heart attack.