Turning Point In The Story Of An Hour

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out of the window and a tear did not leave her eye. This was the turning point in “The Story of an Hour”. She suddenly saw the world outside of her home and she was in awe. The narrator describes Mrs. Mallard at this moment as being “young, with a fair, clam face” (223). The plot starts to move toward Mrs. Mallard realizing that she is now independent and she whispers the words, “free, free, free” (224). When the narrator says, “She saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome,” she starts to think about her and Mr. Mallard’s life together and realized that she loved him sometimes and not all the time (224). Suddenly, her sister

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