Select the correct text in the passage.
In "The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin suggests that marriage can be oppressive for women. Which line in these excerpts from the story
supports that suggestion?
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her
husband's death
The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the
coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.
There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private
will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of
illumination
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new Spring life. The delicious breath of rain
was in the air