The women in “The Awakening” and “The Story of An Hour” are similar. Both Edna and Mrs. Mallard were married and did not like it. They were not able to be individuals and did things to please their husbands. They were not able to make their own decisions and they felt trapped.
In “The Awakening”, Edna’s freedom came from swimming and realizing she could do things by herself. This caused her to not depend on her husband which led her to get her own home called the Pigeon House. This independence lasted only awhile until she got unhappy. She ended up committing suicide in the ocean due to her realizing that no one understood her and that Robert was not able to break away from society like she wanted.
In “The Story of an Hour”, Mrs. Mallard got her awakening from her husband dying. After the news of his death, all she could thing about was that she was free. Instead of feeling grief, she was seeing life in a positive way. However, once she saw that her husband was not dead, she died. I think it was because she was so happy to feel free and once she saw her husband, all her optimistic thinking was destroyed so she died. Her hopes were ruined.
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