Mallard dies herself of shock after she convinces herself that it was good for him to be dead. ... She felt abandoned by her husband who had so recently died, and was full of grief. ... Anxious for spring days, summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own; that she did not any longer have to share with anyone overwhelmed her. ... She does not even like the sight of him- she is so overcome with disbelief and revulsion that she dies of heart disease. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The importance of the story is not that the moth dies, but that the idea lives on just like how the moth caught fire and stayed alight "until I blew her out.... An example of this in Death of a Moth is "Two summers ago, I was camped alone in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. ...

• Word Count: 590
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

As she was projecting spring and summer days to come, a feeling that her life would be her own again gave her a contentment that she had not felt in a long time. ... To her sister (Josephine) it would appear that she died of joy when she saw her spouse was not dead. ...

• Word Count: 563
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• Grade Level: High School

Everybody has a story to tell, It can be about your weekend, your summer vacation, what happened to a friend of yours but in Alice Munro's short story " Friend of My Youth-, the narrator has a very fascinating story to tell. ... Flora's father had set the wedding one year ahead before he died. ... The teacher then, in her early fifties got a paralyzing disease and died. ...

• Word Count: 955
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She thinks of spring and summer days. ... Louise, in her tender condition, shrieks and dies on the floor before him. The doctor pronounces that she has "died of heart disease - of joy that kills." ...

• Word Count: 1009
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School