Blog Report 2 Madison Klump

I believe that in “The story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard loves her husband. I say that because the way that the story is told you don’t really know if she had a happy or sad marriage. So you could go either way but I believe that she had a happy marriage and that she actually did love her husband. I believe that she loved her husband because when she thought that her husband was one of the guys that died in the railroad disaster she wept in her sister’s arms. And she soon wanted to be left alone in the room where she ended up sitting in her chair looking out the window “when she started sobbing like a child does” (Chopin 2). When she say’s “Free!  Body and soul free” (Chopin 2)! I feel like she is saying this because she believes that her husband is now free from everything which is a good thing even though he may not be with her. Or maybe that she was happy that he was free because she knew that she would be free soon too because she had heart problems and she would be with him in heaven soon. The last reason I believed that she loved him was because at the end of the story her husband walked in the door and then she died of a heart attack. I believe that she was so surprised that he was alive and happy to see him that that it caused her to have a heart attack.   

In the book “Things Fall Apart” I believe that the dad really did feel something when he killed the kid. He said that he didn’t want to be like his dad so he said he would kill the kid and feel nothing. But I believe he was just saying that so the other people didn’t look at him differently. Because in the story he is a scary man and I don’t think he wanted the people to think he was less scary or less of a man for feeling something even though he looked at the kid as a son.