The Story of an Hour

In paragraph 5 Chopin uses imagery to explain what is happening in the outside world. I think it is one of the first times she has taken the time to look around herself when she is not in the grips of her husband. "The suspension of intelligent thought" simply means there is nothing else going on in her head besides the things she views in the outside world. Her eyes are the only things that are processing information to her brain. I believe the one sentence that epitomizes the human condition in this story is , "There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself". All humans should always live for themselves and never try to live for another or be under the control of any one person.