The significance of paragraph 5 is that Mrs. Mallard is seeing everything in a whole new light. Kate Chopin notes, "[She] could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring of life. The delicious breath of rain in the air."(198) Reading this I got a sense of being there in her shoes, I could feel what she was feeling. In the 7th paragraph Chopin writes that Mrs. Mallard has a "dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of the patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought"(198). I think her thoughts were kind of lost, or her mental state of mind was frozen. As the story moves on, Mrs. Mallards demeanour changes and she starts to feel free. What really hit me hard was when Mrs. Mallard saw "beyond the bitter moment(husbands death) a long procession of years to come that would belong to only her. 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" (Chopin 198).
This story shows the kind of power a man has over a woman and how hard it is for a woman to break away from that power.
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