The Story of an Hour

In The Story of an Hour a young lady finds herself mourning the sudden loss of her husband.
In the story we find that she becomes somewhat happy at the notion that her husband is dead.
During the fifth paragraph Kate Chopin pays particular attention to her surroundings by telling us how the sky looked and how the air felt. I think the main reason for Chopin doing this is to give us a little insight on the secluded unemotional world that Mrs. Mallard was living in. This paragraph to me illustrates how she is just waking up from her life and noticing the world around her. Once she believes her husband is dead she now is awaken from whatever hold her husband had on her. No longer was she going about life in a daze, now she was fully aware of the beauty around her.
The quote from paragraph seven, "suspension of intelligent thought", shows her going through the process of realizing her husband is dead and that she realizes that she is going to be far happier with him gone.