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In the evidence, "She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will." gives freedom/her will as coming back to her and taking control of her own path.

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Kate Chopin uses Mrs Mallard's epiphany to base the story on but the way she puts emphasis on the epiphany is interesting, Mrs. Chopin does this by using an anaphora to draw the reader's attention with the word free.

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"There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air. Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will." (Page 2)

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Landree Craft
Valerie Hospers
Luis Cales
Shahan Lalani

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When Mrs. Mallard dies it is symbolizing that she was suffocated and gave up because the power her husband had over her was too overbearing.

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"When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the
joy that kills." (Page 2)

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- she was striving to beat it back with her will--as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" (Page 1)

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After learning of Mr. Mallard's death from her sister Josephine, Mrs. Mallard portrays a sense of phantom sadness in the presence of company, and when in solitude, experiences an epiphany that she is free from her husband's control. Her mind floods with hope that she will be able to make her own decisions and have her own opinions, but minutes later, her husband walks through the front door, alive and well, and unknowing of the accident that had supposedly killed him. Mrs. Mallard, astounded, dies of her heart disease, and the disappointment that she wouldn’t be free after all.