Story of an Hour

The one passage that epitomizes the story's significance to me is when the married woman who had just lost her husband had expressed how free she was. "She said it over and over under her breath: "Free, free, free!" (p.194) I feel that in this story the author gives us the feeling that she was happy in her marriage but also felt trapped. When she finds out that her husband had been killed she feels remourse for a short time but then realizes the sense of freedom that is yet to come in her life. In paragraph 20 it also tells us as she opens the door to her sister she has triumph in her eyes and carries herself unwittingly like a goddess of victory.