Mallard. Her assertiveness went beyond the years of marriage and the love she had for him. She begins to realize that she can now live for herself and focus on herself. The text insists: “There would be no one to live for in the years to come; she would live for herself. No powerful will would bend its own in this blind persistence with which men and women believe they have the right to impose a private will on their fellow men. (Chopin 477.) She can finally live freely and no longer fear being confined in her marriage and in her own home. She realized that she is now independent, can think freely and achieve happiness and freedom. She is no longer held back or held back by her marriage. She will no longer be someone's possession, she will be free and respected. Her husband Brently returns and he is alive. The happiness and freedom she once briefly possessed with the mere image of her deceased husband were quickly snatched away. “When the doctors came, they said she had died of a heart disease of joy that kills” (Chopin 477). She was free but still confined without the knowledge of her husband who was not dead. Chopin illustrates at the end that she was free because joy killed her. She was joyful because she was finally released, but she is again confined by grief knowing that her husband was not killed.