Read each quote carefully. Choose 3 of the quotes below and determine the situation of the excerpt, and write a thoughtful response discussing the significance of the passage and its relationship to the rest of the work.

“ ‘You are burnt beyond recognition,’ he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage. She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her lawn sleeves above the wrists. Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before leaving for the beach. She silently reached out to him, and he, understanding, took the rings from his vest pocket and dropped them into her open palm.” (Ch. 1)
“In short, Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman. The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle.” (Ch. 4)
“Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative treaty.” (Ch. 5)