How do you interpret Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts in paragraph 14?

Paragraph 14

There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. 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. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

In this paragraph, we can see that Mrs. Mallard's thoughts turn away from any type of sadness or shock at her husband's death toward the vision of freedom she'll experience as a widow. She realizes that her actions will be her own.... that in her husband's death, she will gain her own identity rather than simply exisiting as an extension of the man she married.