Kate Chopin describes a story of great irony. The story shows how women were repressed in the past. Women were not treated equally to men and had fewer freedoms, rights and power. Freedom is a basic human need that allows people to flourish, it is so important to human beings no matter what country, religion or culture you live in. Kate Chopin introduced Mrs. Mallard, a young woman who discovers that her husband has died on a train. destroy. She reacts with sadness at first, but then realizes in a burst of emotion and relief that she is “Free! Free body and soul! » (199) She sees the world with a new vision, a vision in which she will be her own person, answering only to herself. She's ready to start this new life when her husband, who apparently wasn't on the train after all, comes home. The woman (Mrs. Mallard) eventually died from shock because she had lost her newfound freedom. The end of the story depicts the society in which women had less freedom than men. According to the beginning of the story, as Kate Chopin wrote "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard suffered from heart problems" (197), the stereotype is that women were supposed to be weak, timid and hysterical. And it also foreshadows the end of Mrs. Mallard dying because she had a weak heart. At the beginning of the story, Mrs. Mallard reacted with sadness when she first heard the news from her husband's friend, Richards. “She cried immediately, with sudden and wild abandon, in her sister’s arms” (197). However, she changed her mind when she got to her own room. She began to feel free, "no powerful will would bend hers to this blind persistence with which men and women believe they have the right to impose a private will on their fellow men." (198)She thought she... in the middle of a paper...!”(199). Most Victorian women would not react the way she did in this era. Her sister thought she was going to make herself sick, but instead she felt sad. She felt like a “goddess of Victory” (199) and “drank a true elixir of life through this open window” (199). The story tells us how important freedom is and how difficult it was to obtain it for a woman in the past. As we know, Mrs. Mallard's character finally appreciated how joyful it was to have freedom and see the world with a new vision, but suddenly all her dreams were shattered, which caused her death. In fact, she died of shock when she saw that her husband wasn't dead after all and all her new freedom didn't have to be. She would be sent back to the prison of her life as a Victorian bride. The ending is very satirical about how not all women want to be dominated by their husbands and society..