Mrs. Mallard was very excited to hear that her husband was killed in a train accident. Of course, she didn't show it in front of the others, where she faked emotions. She wandered into her room and shouted, "free, free, free!" This is when we learned that Mrs. Mallard was not in the best of relationships with her husband. She exclaimed how she no longer had to live for a man, but only for herself, hence the term free.
The news was broken to her gently, because the others knew that she suffered from a heart condition. It is ironic that, in the end, she dies from the sudden change of joy to sorrow, when her husband, alive and well, appears at her door. The doctors thought that she was killed from the joy of seeing her husband, when in fact she died from the sudden lack of it.
Although this story's setting is limited, it gives a feel for the plot and how things went down. This limitation helps express the story. For example, the open window shows Mrs. Mallard the opportunities that lie ahead without her husband. The small room also represents the oppressiveness of her marriage. She is constrained to her husband, and lives only for him.
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