A Jury of Her Peers

Based on her thinking after learning of her husband's death, how would Mrs. Mallard in "The Story of an Hour" have responded to Franklin's idea?

Benjamin Franklin said, "Be assured, a Woman's Power, as well as Happiness, has no other Foundation but her Husband's Esteem and Love."

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I don't think Mrs. Mallard would agree. I believe that she was happy with her husband... and that she loved him, but his death provided her with what she believed to be true freedom.

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