Mallard's new identity is also compared to that of a new spring life. “She could see in the square in front of her house the tops of the trees all quivering with new spring life” (Chopin 1). As Mrs. Mallard looks out the open window, she sets her gaze on the trees that were shaking with this new spring life. This “new spring life” is used to represent the rebirth of Madame Louise’s joy. This spring, for Mrs. Mallord, will produce buds of happiness which will become this blooming flower of joy and freedom. The trees act in representing Madame Louise's thoughts and actions. The narrator describes it as “his imagination was running wild in the days that awaited him. Spring days, summer days and all kinds of days would belong to him” (Chopin 2). She is just beginning to find joy, but begins to let her joy run past her to the days she would identify as free and