In paragraph 5 the author’s paragraph does not move the plot, but it does convey her thoughts. The sentences in the paragraph all pertain to happy things, for example, “new spring life”, and “delicious breath of rain”. These thoughts are all of happy things, just as the thought of her husband being dead was a happy thought to her.
By the phrase, “suspension of intelligent thought,” I think that Chopin is referring to her thinking hard about what terrible things her husband had done to her to cause her unhappiness. The passage that I think is the opposite of this is, “The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes.”
The one passage that I would pick from this story to sum up the theme and feeling is found near the end of the story before she finds out that he is still alive. “Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.” This paragraph just states that she would be so much happier without her husband and life would be better, it would be worth living.
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