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Who is the protagonist?
Louise Mallard
100
What is the time period of the story
19th C
100
Train accident
What is the presumed death of the husband
100
Name an ironic event in the story
What is her death
100
What is the symbol for new life
What is Springtime
200
Who is the husband?
Brently Mallard
200
Louise has this problem
heart condition
200
weep
What is her first reaction to the news of his death
200
Often she had not ...
What is love her husband
200
What is the major symbol of weakness?
What is the symbolic plot of Mrs. Mallard’s heart
300
Who is the sister?
Josephine
300
Springtime
What is the season of the story
300
freedom
What is Mrs. Mallard's desire
300
What bespoke repression?
What is the young woman’s face
300
What symbolizes the Emergence of her new life
What do the Patches of Blue Sky represent?
400
Who is the friend who first hears of the accident?
Richards
400
What form/ political movement is the story?
Feminism
400
What is the protagonist's "monstrous joy?"
freedom
400
This was “bending" the protagonist.
What is powerful will
400
What represents the freedom and opportunities that await her after her husband has died
What is the open window
500
Who is the author of this story?
Kate Chopin
500
Major theme of the story?
Oppression
500
"joy that kills her"
What is she dies of
500
What specific line foreshadows the ending?
What is the opening sentence of the story
500
Chopin states that even the kindest ones of these, are inherently oppressive
What is Chopin suggestion of marriages