When her husband was still with her, she had no identity, she was labeled solely as Mrs. Mallard, Brently Mallard's wife. Now, Louise understands that she can finally be herself and be identified as who she is, not just as someone else's wife. When Louise leaves her room, she develops into a new person and as Mark Cunningham (2004) writes in his Literary Criticism, The Autonomous Female and the Death of Louise Mallard in Kate Chopin's “Story of an Hour”, “With the return of Brently, with the reconstitution of her marriage and previous social position, Luisa disappears again between her husband and his relatives” (par. 3). This explains that when Louise's husband was with her, and when he returns, she fades into the background. In the short time Louise is deprived of her husband, she grows into her own identity and this gives way to her feminist ideas. When Louise realizes that she will now have to live for no one else in the years to come, Chopin (1894) writes that "There would be no powerful will that could bend hers" (par. 14). This shows that Louise often felt that her husband's opinion conflicted with her own and rarely received the attention it deserved. Now, Louise has no one above her, no one to be associated with as inferior