Example of Thesis #2:
Chopin uses a variety of contrasting words of life and death in order to show us not what is physically happening to the main character, but what is emotionally happening to her. Chopin makes it clear to us that Mrs. Mallard was not fully alive while her husband was around, detailing to us that she was noticing the outside world and the beauty that it held for what must have been the first time in a long time. Irony becomes very present at the end of the story when Mrs. Mallard physically dies, but she is also now emotionally alive and free.
Example of Thesis #3:
Chopin makes a clear point to us about her feelings of society and marriage. Her descriptions of how Mrs. Mallard feels when she learns about her husbands death are at first what we would typically imagine, with intense grief and mourning. Her feelings soon change to realizing what she now has to look forward to with her life and her new freedom. She is implying that marriage is a sort of jail, keeping people back from experiencing the true freedoms and pleasures that life has to offer. Chopin also hints to us that the marriage may have been an abusive one due to the relief that Mrs. Mallard feels after her husbands death, which hints at a larger problem seen in marriages back then and today.
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