The Story of an hour

This story is about a women, Mrs. Mallard, that is told her husband had died. She broke down and cried, she was sad at first then she realized she was now free of him. "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 fellow creature" (pg 194). I believe this passage represents her belief on marriage that men and women have expectation of what marriage should be and how each other should act. In paragraph five the author describes everything around Mrs. Mallard. I think its about Mrs. Mallard taking in her surroundings as if almost for the first time. When the author says "suspension of intelligent thought"(193) I think she meant that Mrs. Mallard pauses with all rational thinking for a moment.