As Mrs. Pontellier has thought about her life and her mistakes, she can't do anything about it anymore. What's done is done and there's nothing that anyone can do about it. When Chopin says that Mrs. Pontellier is "thinking of the bluegrass meadow that she had traversed when a child", this proves that she has spaced out into her own world of when she was a little girl. The detail about a "little girl" shows the reader that she in a way longs to be one again. A little girl is innocent and has pure thoughts and she regrets all she has done. When a child, everyone is given the opportunity to start over and over and over. There comes a point in life where the opportunities start diminishing and those opportunities for Mrs. Pontellier where vanished. She felt no hope anymore and so she just decided to take away with her life.
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