See if your answers match these. 1. We learn from the story that Louise and Brently probably had a relatively good marriage—she “had loved him,” at least “sometimes,” and he had “never looked save with love upon her.” But to Louise, no amount of love can erase the “crime” of marriage (paragraph 14). Louise realizes that self-assertion is “the strongest impulse of her being” (paragraph 15). In her marriage, however good it may have been, there was always Brently’s “powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a.
