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Turning Grief into Joy

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Length: 1000 - 1250 words

% Of final grade: 25%

Topic: Why do you think Mrs. Mallard turns from grief to joy while processing the news of her husband’s death? Support your answer with specific references to the text.

 

I wrote my first draft in bullet form:

Why do you think Mrs. Mallard turns from grief to joy while processing the news of her husband’s death? Support your answer with specific references to the text.

 

  • When Mrs. Louise Mallard initially hears the news of her husband's fatal accident, she weeps with "sudden, wild abandonment" into her sister's arms. 
  • I believe that Mrs. Mallard feels abandoned because women in the 19th century were wholly dependent on men, and if the man died, like Mr. Brently Mallard, then Mrs. Mallard would have no other source of income apart from Mr. Mallard's savings. 
  • After hearing the tragic news, Mrs. Mallard experienced a "storm of grief" and could not calm down. After Louise's emotions flared, she returned to her room, where she underwent an extraordinary transformation. Louise was alone in the upstairs room, sitting in a comfortable chair, breathing in the "delicious breath of rain" and looking out the window. 
  • I believe Louise Mallard turns from grief to joy when faced with the news of her husband's death because alas, she feels "free, free, free!" and "Free! Body and soul free!" (A sense of freedom)
  • In my opinion, Mrs. Mallard experiences a sudden epiphany when she all of a sudden is aware of the positives attached to being a widow and embraces her future as an independent woman. "A long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome." 
  • Mrs. Mallard will no longer be restricted by her marital obligations or standards of social oppression. "There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature." 
  • Women were often trapped in their homes and would only perform domestic chaos and duties. The roles of homemakers were to bear children, take care of the young ones, and submit to the husbands, like how Mrs. Millard explains the freedom she gains after Mr. Millard's death. 
  • Women had little say over their own lives. The males in society had complete control over everything. The woman's husband had the right to access anything she owned, even her own body. Unfortunately, women were not given fundamental rights that every single person should have. 
  • As with Mrs. Mallard, many women in society believed that marriage was a once-in-a-lifetime commitment. Women were not supposed to divorce; instead, they were expected to stay with their husbands, even if their marriage was unpleasant. This could be one of the main reasons why Mrs. Mallard is happy and feels free upon hearing the news of her husband's death because she most likely in an oppressed relationship that did not give her a sense of contentment or satisfaction. 
  • Women were viewed as asexual creatures who lacked feelings and an existence of their own in society. Therefore, Mrs. Mallard realized that now she would live her life for herself and on her own terms. "There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself." The problem is that women have been discriminated against with great consistency back to the beginning of recorded history, and probably even long before that.

 

Please use information from my draft above to write the essay.

The final project: Submit the final version of your project, incorporating any suggestions your colleagues made that you felt were useful. As before, secondary research is not necessary but is acceptable. Write your essay using the MLA style and include a Works Cited page. Don’t forget to give it a relevant title!

Here are my suggestions from colleagues:

Once I get a response from my colleagues on the draft above I will share it via message.

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Name: Roumaisa Multani
Professor: Maria Ionita
Course: (C) ENG 602 – DA0
Date: July 23, 2021
Short-Lived Joy
Losing a spouse is difficult. When someone’s spouse dies, the surviving spouse is often left feeling grief and sorrow from the loss. Most often, the surviving spouse struggles to accept their loss and move on with their lives. In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, the author details the emotional journey of Mrs. Louise Mallard after learning that her husband had passed on. However, Mrs. Mallard’s reaction is anomalous because she only grieves for a short while before her grief transforms into joy. The sudden death of Mrs. Mallard at the end of “The Story of an Hour” suggests that a return to a marriage where her husband controlled her life would be intolerable after she had envisioned living life on her terms. As Mrs. Mallard contemplates her husband’s death, her grief brings more powerful feelings of joy in her newly found freedom, independence, and self-possession.
Mrs. Mallard is afflicted by a heart condition, which requires her sister and her husband’s friend to take great care in delivering the news of her husband’s death. When Mrs. Mallard initially receives the news of her husband’s demise through a train crash, she is immediately overcome with grief. She weeps with “sudden, wild abandonment” and cried heavily into her sister’s arms (Chopin). Mrs. Mallard weeps because her husband’s death means she has lost her companion and loving husband “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, gray, and dead” (Chopin). Besides, the life she had known up to this particular moment was about to change drastically.
After the "storm of grief" ends, Mrs. Mallard returns to her room, where she underwent an extraordinary transformation (Chopin). She asked to be given some time alone to process the news she had just received. Mrs. Mallard sits in a comfortable armchair by an open window, feeling exhausted, breathing in the “delicious breath of rain” (Chopin). Chopin uses symbolism to illustrate the emotional changes Mrs. Mallard is undergoing. The open window symbolizes that Mrs. Mallard's mind is about to open up, and so is her life. As Louise looks outside, she observes that the trees were flowering with new life. She also hears the distant echoes of someone singing. Some potentials and possibilities begin reaping into her mind at this point. Mrs. Mallard gradually realizes that life goes on even after her husband's demise and that life will be sweet. Chopin changes the story's mood through this positive description of Louise's experience when alone in her room. A new feeling is coming to Louise just out of her grief process. Mrs. Mallard’s mood gradually shifts from grief to joy “except when a sob came to her throat and shook her.” (Chopin). This shows she occasionally struggles with guilt from feeling relieved by her husband's death but chooses ...
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