Kate Chopin's Short Stories

What kinds of sensory images does this passage contain, and what senses does it address? What does the vision through the open window mean to her? Where else does she taste, smell, or touch something intangible in the story?

In what ways is this passage significant? "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. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves."

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sight

"...all aquiver with the new spring life."

smell

"The delicious breath of rain was in the air."

sound

"...a peddler was crying his wares."

sound

"The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves."

The vision through the open window alludes to the fact that life must go on. Mrs. Mallard has only just heard about her husband's death, and yet, through the open window she doesn't see the world stopping with his loss but rather "new life."

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The Story of an Hour

What she sees, feels, hears, and smell.

Taken back from the depressing fact that her husband had died in a traget train accident.

She took a look out the window and could seelife in the trees, able to breath fresh air and could smell the freshness in it. Able to hear the voices of life in the street.

What does the vision through the window mean to her? A set aside time to think of what and how she needed to do right now. As well a time to relax her mind of the traget accident of her husband. A time to think.

Where else does she taste, smell, or touch something intangible in the story?

she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.

Sight

"...all aquiver with the new spring life."

smell

"The delicious breath of rain was in the air."

sound

"...a peddler was crying his wares."

sound

"The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves."

The vision through the open window alludes to the fact that life must go on. Mrs. Mallard has only just heard about her husband's death, and yet, through the open window she doesn't see the world stopping with his loss but rather "new life."

Your heart must have asense