man. Louise senses
something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know. It was too subtle and elusive to name. . . . She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her. . . . A little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips . . . : "free, free, free!" (Chopin 234).
Louise does not report the precise reason or reasons she feels such liberation only moments after being informed that her husband has met a sudden and violent death. Th
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