3rd Period Story of an Hour: Character by Gretchen Monroe

Consider the following, about Mrs. Mallard, and write an assertion about Mrs. Mallard. Then write a paragraph demonstrating your ability to think critically about her part in the story, and why the author created (wrote) her the way she did. Providing evidence from the story is required, to support your assertion.

gmonroe4 — 2024-02-14 15:31:15 UTC

Go beyond the character bio that you've written in other English classes. This is different.

Is Mrs. Mallard a relatable character?

What does she say and think, that makes you feel that way?

Why does Mrs. Mallard say and do the things that she does?

What are her motivations and values and how are they revealed throughout the story? How do you see all that?

What are her weaknesses and strengths?

Example assertion

gmonroe4 — 2024-02-14 15:46:13 UTC

Kate Chopin's character of Mrs. Mallard is relatable to women in different cultural and social context, as conveyed through her reactions to the news of her husbands death.

gmonroe4 — 2024-02-14 16:02:29 UTC

Gabe

2024-02-14 19:40:13 UTC

The character of Mrs. Mallard is relatable to people who have lost a loved one.

Paragraph 4 page one says she was paralyzed cried and ran away to be by herself. This connects to everyone who has lost a loved one because it is a common human reaction to weep and want to spend time alone. In the last paragraph of the first page, it said she had a dull stare. This means she has an empty sight and she is disconnected from the world and lost in thought. It is relatable because usually when you lose someone you stop sitting somewhere and either think about why it happened to them or you think of fond memories with that person.

Jackson

2024-02-14 19:40:47 UTC

Mrs. Mallard feels sorrow, but also feels joy upon hearing the news of her husbands death, she feels sense of freedom from that in this turbulant time in her life.

Evidence

When she first hears the news, she is swept over by sorrow and is immediatley distraught. But as she keeps thinking, she realizes that she is now free from the bonds of marraige. She said she did love him at times, but her love obviously wasn't very great for him because the thought of freedom seemed better to her than being with her husband

Jake Watson

jakewatson3 — 2024-02-14 19:42:29 UTC

Mrs. Mallard is relatable in the way that people respond to their situation. We all have to react to what is happening us and we all do it in different ways. She felt that she was free, which may seem kind of weird with her husbands death but I guess she was just looking at the positive side. She is motivated by her own happiness in her situation and by looking into the future out of the window and she sees that things will get brighter.

Emma

2024-02-14 19:44:15 UTC

The author's character of Mrs. Mallard identifies with those who have grieved the death of someone they love, no matter how that looks as it looks different for everyone. In the story, it says "When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone." This shows that she did grieve the death of her husband, even though she reacted differently later.

Charlie

2024-02-14 19:44:42 UTC

I think that Mrs. Mallard could be a relatable character for a lot of people that has lost someone that has special meaning in their life. Everyone reacts differently do a death but Mrs. Mallards was different from a lot of peoples. a lot of people feel sad and is a hard place for then to be in, although Mrs. Mallard did feel these things she also felt a sense of relief. She felt that she was free and was able to do more with her life

Tommy

2024-02-14 19:44:45 UTC

Mrs. Mallard was a relatable character to the people have lost people at such a young age. In paragraph 5 it says, "She was young, with fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength." I feel like this part describes Mrs. Mallard and in the paragraph 4 it said, "She sat with her head thrown back upon the chushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her." This shows how she handled the news about her husband.

reese

2024-02-14 21:02:47 UTC

Mrs. Mallard is relatable to those who have experienced grief. In the story there is examples of her grieving, describing her with a "dull stare in her eyes" and "pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body". We see through the story how she eventually excepts the death of her husband and all the emotions she could be experiencing. This situation is relatable to many people, and can resonate with them in the way she responds.

Mercy

2024-02-15 04:08:03 UTC

Mrs. Mallard is a relatable character because she knows what it is like to lose someone significant. She was grieving so much, but also felt a sense of relief from having to always cater to someone else's needs. "She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life." When she is looking out of the window she feels the freedom and sees the world in a new way. I think that she feels a little bit guilty for feeling this way, but mostly relieved.

Carter

2024-02-15 14:50:25 UTC

I think Mrs. Mallard is a relatable character to lots of people because she is experiencing grief and loss of a close loved one. Although she was devastated, she showed relief because she felt freedom now that he was gone. She is motived by her own wants and emotions. She looks past this and sees that better things are ahead.

Caden

2024-02-15 15:52:11 UTC

Mrs. Mallard is relatable to anyone who has lost someone they are close too. As humans our instant reaction to a loss is to weep and spend time alone just like she did when she found out her husband died in paragraph 4 page 1. When someone loses someone, you stop sitting somewhere and then you think about the memories or what your gonna miss. In the last paragraph on the first page, it said she had a dull stare. which is relatable because of the explanation I already wrote about.

Cade

2024-02-15 15:54:14 UTC

Mrs. Mallard is a relatable character to those who have not found happiness in themselves and find their happiness in others. She was so focused on making sure the people around her were happy and that was where she found her happiness. When she lost her husband, she found so much hope and happiness in herself, that it literally killed her when she found out that her husband was still alive. This relates to those who cannot find happiness in themselves, and seeing how much true happiness they could truly find if they were to look just in themselves to find their happiness, and not in others.

Sam Svoboda

2024-02-15 15:56:26 UTC

Mrs. Mallard may not be relatable, but her actions are definitely easy to observe and are extremely understandable for her situation. She feels that she has been in a prison cell her entire message so when she think sher husband has died, it feels like a fresh start. But once the news of him still being alive hits, she is devastated. We see all this through how she views her room and her possibilities for a future life. This may point to a weakness of allowing her husband to dictate the joy in her life, rather than her finding her own joy and purpose.

Jacob

2024-02-15 16:05:33 UTC

I think that Mrs. Mallard is a relatable character because of how she reacted to the situations she had bestowed upon her. In paragraph 4 page 1 of the story she experienced the loss of her husband. Her reaction to this however seemed to be not overly normal, but instead she had a blank stare on her face. She is so lost that she is not crying or freaking out but instead is completely broken thinking about the joys of her past with hope that no longer seemed to be able to bare any fruit. This is relatable to those who have experienced loss, or those who struggle to find any form of hope or happiness in there life.

Arisyn

arisynbratt — 2024-02-15 22:00:45 UTC

I don't think that Mrs. Mallard is a relatable character. The reason I believe this is the way she reacts to her husbands death. In paragraph three it says "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance." After this she then goes into her room and stops crying and looks out the window and to me she seems to have a since of freedom. Not most people after they have heard there spouse has died feel a sense of freedom. I think that her values throughout the story are that she never needed her husband that he kept her from what she wanted to do. Her weaknesses and strengths are that she has always been around her husband, relied on him and never did things on her own. Now that her husband is dead she wants to fend for herself and be independent but doesn't know how.

Peter

2024-02-16 14:30:59 UTC

Mrs. Mallard is relatable in the way that she reacts to the bad news. She immediately starts to cry, and eventually just wants to be alone. This is relatable to most people. A lot of the time when someone gets bad news about something tragic, the first thing they do is cry. But even throughout the time when they are grieving, they want to be alone. In the story she cries and just wants to be alone.

Grace Lichti

gracelichti — 2024-02-19 15:59:05 UTC

To me, Mrs. Mallard is a relatable character in the way that she is learning and feeling oppression from a past relationship in her life. Many people today endure relationships that are full of difficulty and oppression, and this helps them relate to the character when they see Mrs. Mallard struggling with the aftermath of oppression as well.

ayla

2024-02-19 16:01:05 UTC

Mrs Mallard is a relatable character to people who have struggled with the loss of a significant other, especially when the feelings are complicated. We can see this based on her conflicting emotions of pain and joy. Her emotions change multiple times within a short span of time. She initially feels sad because of the loss of her husband, but then she starts to think about all of the freedoms that marriage "stole" from her. We can see her value of freedom clearly in the story when she finally dares to hope for new freedom of widowhood.