Minnie

Many of the characters in this story were faced with the challenges of struggling to find individuality and conformity. It was hard for several of them to overcome this and make it work for them in their favor. A lot of people are focusing on Minnie who was a very unhappy person during her marriage. This is because she would refrain from being herself around her husband and this caused her to lose her individuality and then when her husband dies she struggles to find that individuality that she had before her husband. She does end up killing her husband in the end but it has to do with the fact that she lost who she once was because of him and all she wanted was to regain that identity and be able to live the happy life that she once had and loved. Minnie was turned into something that she wasn't because of the way that her society viewed women and their roles in the community. She was unable to do what she wanted and this caused her to almost become depressed because she felt almost like she was trapped in this reality where she was forced to be someone that she isn't. This can make a person go crazy and do something such as killing their husband so that they can gain that little piece of their identity that they have lost and are looking to find it again. In the end there were many things that caused Minnie to become who she was and do what she did but it all comes back to that idea that she was looking to reclaim the  identity that she had before marrying her husband.