A Story of an Hour

If I could pick a part of the story that eptomizes the story's significance, I would definately say the part that reads "her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long." (194) This means so much to me. She is now excited and wants life to be long. She can do anything she wants and can life each day to its fullest. Yesterday when her husband was alive, she feared each day would drag on forever and he would be there every second to control her and beat her. This paragraph was full of the past, present, and future.