This is in stark contrast to the sections where she seems indifferent or emotionally detached. For example, in the quote above that begins with the very simple statement in one of the quotes from “Story of an Hour,” “And yet she loved him, sometimes. Often he didn’t,” which demonstrates emotional passivity, but as the short paragraph continues and his true emotions come to the foreground, the language comes to life along with his character. The truncated line above is followed by: “Who cares! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count in the face of this possession of self-affirmation which he suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of his being!” It is important to note that not only does the language come to life with the use of words like “mystery,” “possession,” and “impulse,” but the sentence itself also changes. The initial emotions portrayed in these quotes from "The Story of an Hour" (click for full plot summary) by Kate Chopin in which she was passive are short, neat sentences, but as soon as she begins to feel an emotion, the sentences expand and the set of a massive thought about "his being" becomes a very long sentence in contrast to the previous one