Plot
This man is reported dead at the beginning of the story.
Who is Brently Mallard?
This is Ms. Mallard's first name.
What is Louise?
This is why Louise isolates herself.
What is to think and process her emotions?
This place represents Louise's need for privacy and reflectin.
What is her room?
This feeling Louise experiences instead of pure sadness.
What is relief?
This person tells Louise the news.
This character waits outside the door begging Louise to open it.
Who is Josephine?
This makes Louise's reaction unexpected to others.
What is her feeling or relief instead of greif?
This object symbolizes freedom and new beginnings.
What is the open window?
This is a major theme about women in marriage.
What is lack of independence?
This shocking event happened at the end of the story.
What is Brently Mallard turning alive?
This character confirms the news of the accident.
Who is Richards?
This is why readers understand more than the charcters.
What is dramatic irony?
This season symbolizes freedom and new beginnings.
What is spring?
This theme relates to personal freedom versus social expectations.
What is individual freedom?
This is what causes Louise's death.
The shock of her husband being alive?
These people misinterpret the cause of the death.
Who is the doctors?
This explains why the ending is tragic.
What is she dies just after gaining a sense of freedom?
This physical condition represents emotional restriction.
This literary device is strongly used in the ending.
What is irony?
This why the news of the death had to be told gently.
What is her heart condition?
This type of husband is portrayed as (not cruel, but still limiting)...
What is kind but controling?
This question explores whether Louise's reaction is justified.
What is "is her desire for freedom understandable?"
This contrast shows freedom versus confinement.
This theme suggests love can sometimes conflict with this idea.
What is freedom?