ole filler. He is the husband, the breadwinner, certainly not the oppressor. Society’s traditions, the‘correct’ way to live, the roles of the ‘proper’ husband and wife, those are the reasons, theoppressors, the “clouds that had met and piled above the other”(445). They are thereasons that Louise’s “quick prayer that life might be long”(446) was crushed, They werethe silent killers of Louise Mallard....
