“She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But 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”(Chopin lines 24-27). This woman was so overjoyed that her husband was thought to be dead. I believe that I have read this before, in my high school AP literature class and can’t quite remember if we talked about why Louise was so happy that her husband was thought to be deceased. Does her line of thinking correlate with Mulvey’s thoughts on feminism and the gaze? Or rather, does it go with who the focalizer is within this story?