Her sister Josephine gave her the news “with broken sentences, veiled hints that revealed themselves half-hiding them”. After hearing of her husband's death, Mrs. Mallard locks herself in her room to cry. He sits in a chair in front of an open window and begins to sob. As she sat looking at a patch of blue sky, a thought began to come to mind. “Free, free, free!” escapes her lips. She realizes that this is the benefit of her husband's death. She will have no one to live for in the next few years but herself. Moments after this revelation, the husband she thought was deceased walks in the front door. He wasn't dead after all. The shock of his appearance kills Mrs. Mallard. The reason why his appearance is so shocking was left deliberately