Which sentence from “The Story of an Hour” best sums up the author’s viewpoint about the restrictions women faced in marriages i
n the last decade of the nineteenth century? A.
Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own.
B.
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of the joy that kills.
C.
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.
D.
It was [Richards] who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed."
The answer is C. The meaning of this sentence simply is that one person forcing something against their will on another, as influential as marriage, is horrific.
