In "The Story of an Hour" analyze the tone of "She could see the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life."Kate Chopin's...

After learning that her husband is on the list of those
killed in a railroad disaster, Mrs. Mallard "would have no one follow her."  Having
reached the privacy of her bedroom, she sits facing the window where she can look out
and perceive "the new spring of life" that is in the trees and, like nature, is also
aquiver in her soul.  Chopin's next sentence suggests this tone of hope in a new
life:

The
delicious breath of rain was in the air....The notes of a distant song which some one
was singing reached her faintly and countless sparrows were twittering in the
eaves.

All these signs of
nature--the far horizon of tree tops, the "spring of life" in the "delicious rain" and
singing of voices, the twittering of birds--indicate the change that comes over the
woman "with a heart trouble" whose trouble has been solved.  For, the repressed Mrs.
Mallard can now foresee a future, and a new future, a spring of hope.  Like the outdoors
that she views from her window, Mrs. Mallard feels new life burgeoning in her soul; the
tone of renewal is in her as well as in nature.  For the first time, with a tone of
renewed hope, she can look beyond each day and see the "tree tops" and "patches of blue
sky" in her future.