"The Story of an Hour"

I believe that the significance of paragraph five is to express and show a comparison to how Mrs. Mallard is feeling. In the paragraph when Kate Chopin states “there were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window,” was significant to me. I believe that this meant that heaven was waiting for her, because the clouds lead a path right to her window. Also the patches of blue sky in the quotes gave me the impression that Chopin was trying to picture an image that resembled that everything would turn out alright. I think that the quote “suspension of intelligent thought,” means that your mind, or in this case, Mrs. Mallard’s mind was at a stand-still. Her mind was at a place of ease and some sort of peace with her life. The opposite quote in this short story would have to be on paragraph nine, the quote states;”She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will.” This is opposite because Mrs. Mallard was feeling defeated and her mind was questioning what was happening to her. I feel that the best passage of this story would be paragraph fourteen. The paragraph states”There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending her in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a less fellow creature. A kind of intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked up in that brief moment of illumination.” This paragraph sums up that the fact that Mrs. Mallard is going to die. It also signifies what heaven would be like, and who she has to live for; herself.