Which sentence from “the story of an hour” best sums up the author’s viewpoint about the restrictions women faced in marriages in the last decade of the nineteenth century?

a.
spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own.

b.
when the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of the joy that kills.

c.
there would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.

d.
it was [richards] who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with brently mallard's name leading the list of "killed."

Which two lines in this sonnet use symbolism to describe old age? sonnet 2 by william shakespeare when forty winters shall besiege thy brow, and dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, where all the treasure of thy lusty days; to say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. how much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, if thou couldst answer 'this fair child of mine shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,' proving his beauty by succession thine! this were to be new made when thou art old, and see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.