When Mrs. Mallard heard from her sister Josephine and Richards of Mr. Mallard’s death. She felt with obvious grief “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms”. However Mrs. Mallard realized that she was now an independent woman, she has a realization that very excited. She viewed that her husband’s death as a release from oppression and her new independence as the core of her being “she breathed a quick prayer that life might be long” in which to enjoy this feeling. When Mr. Mallard returned, he unwittingly wrested her independence away from her. Mrs. Mallard wanted for freedom that was through “The open window” that she saw “the top of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring of life”. It was through that opened window that her life free of the responsibilities and the window had a function as a look into her new life without her husband. She spread her arms to welcome her new life “Body and soul free” she repeated herself that showed to her independence. The heart trouble presented as a weakness of a woman or for wives. Mrs. Mallard hearted of her husband’s death and she went into the room and realized that she was free from her marriage. Heart trouble represented the lack of love within her marriage. She realized that her time with Mr. Mallard was more duties as a wife. When Mr. Mallard walked in house her “Heart trouble” reappeared. In the ending was that Mrs. Mallard did not die of joy as the doctor demand “had died of heart disease-of joy that kills” but from the loss of joy. Mr. Mallard’s death gave her a glint of new life, and when Mr. Mallard appeared, the shock killed her.