<em><u>she was a tall girl, slender and graceful.</u></em>
Answer:
1.Because of her poor health, her family and friends assume that she is too fragile to endure the loss of her husband
Explanation:
Mallard's health is poor. She suffers from "heart trouble" (95). The significance of this is fully realized when the shock of seeing her husband at the end of the story causes her death.
She wants to preserve her family's Mexican culture even though she no longer lives in Mexico