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Although Mrs. Mallard was upset by her husband's death she started to develop and get over her husband's death because she is free.

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The ending of the story could be seen as plausible because Mrs. Mallard had heart problems and the sudden shock of her husband coming back caused her to have a heart attack.

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they didnt want to tell the wife because of her heart conditions, this shows the complexty of their thoughts and whenever they did tell her they were worried but nothing happened however at the end her heart problem got the best of her whenever she saw her husband because it caused her heart to shut down because it couldnt take the level of stress

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"She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms."

This excerpt shows grief's real and emotionally wrecking effect on people in day-to-day life. This event is something that unfortunately happens often.

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Mrs. Mallard shows 2 types of feelings in the story. When her husband passes, she is relieved but goes through sadness as well.

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In the old United States, women were prejudiced against, especially by the elitist men of the society. Upon finding out her husband is dead, she would be free of her husband, own the house, and all of his possessions.

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When she found out about her husband's death, she began to take matters into her own hands and planning out her life with her newfound freedom.

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Brently Mallard worked around railroads showing that he wasn't in the upper-class, he is more of a middle-class worker that has to do physical labor to provide for his family.

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While it was really hard news to break too Mrs. Mallard, Richard made sure Mrs. Mallard was told immediately after the news of her "husband's death" to avoid her from hearing the news later in less favorable circumstances.

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When Mrs. Mallard gets broken the news of her husband's death; she felt a feeling of relief and freedom. Throughout the story, she grows as a person by getting over the death of her husband.

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Although the death of Mr. Mallard was upsetting to Mrs. Mallard, she decided that instead of letting her grief consume her, she was going to "beat it back with her will" and live her life in her newfound freedom.

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"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. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely."

Mrs. Mallard is conflicted with her beliefs, making her have a fully real and believable complexity. She had loved her husband to a degree but was ecstatic about the freedom of life on her own. This tender moment of thought shows her character in all its glory and expression.

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Mrs Mallard realized her new-found freedom as a widow and prepared to control her freedom in a happy future, then she died.

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Even though it seemed that Brently Mallard would be the main focus of the story, the priority shifts to Mrs. Mallard and her developments as a character instead. She focuses on her new life, instead of focusing on her Brently Mallard's death.

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In the beginning of the story, Mrs. Mallard would not accept the fact that her husband had died, but we later see that in the story her attitude changes because she finally accepts that her husband was dead because she is Free.

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The story portrays Mrs. Mallard's grief in a realistic way and does not try to present it in a romanticized way. It also shows the life of a working-class family, and the unfortunate accidents that often occured.

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Richards was in the newspaper office and he received telegrams like a real people would

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Although Mrs. Mallard's husband died, the story continues to show her character development and thought process regarding her life after his death rather than solely focusing on the fact that he died.

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Read the excerpt. The PDF is in Schoology. Then do the following:

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Read the excerpt. The PDF is in Schoology. Then do the following:

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1. In this Padlet, make two or three notes about how this story demonstrates characteristics of Realism.
3. Include your name on the Padlet. You may work with one partner only on this task.