In "The Story of an Hour," which sentence or ensemble of sentences would best describe the fact that, back then, when the husband was happy, the...

Taken as an illustration of marriage in the late 19th century, this story shows that a husband's happiness clearly does not correspond to his wife's happiness. In fact, it argues that the woman's happiness is often suppressed. 

But for the sake of argument, consider some sentences that suggest a loving marriage. 

Louise's grief does suggest a connection to her husband. 

She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. 

When Louise's grief subsides and her feelings and thoughts turn towards her newly discovered freedom, she does reflect upon her marriage to Brently. She considers how he always "looked" upon her with love: 

She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. 

He "looked" upon her with love. Note, that the narrator does not say that he spoke to her with love, nor did he necessarily treat her with love and respect. Simply looking upon her with love shows a kind of objectification. 

Considering her new independence, Louise considers her love for Brently: 

And yet she had loved him—sometimes. 

These sentences show Louise's natural reaction to the death of an important person in her life. And in this story, they are the most favorable comments upon the notion that Louise's happiness corresponded to her husband's own happiness. But they are hardly convincing. And the rest of the story clearly shows that Louise's happiness was not based upon her husband's happiness. In fact, the story argues the opposite point. Louise was unhappy. Her husband ruled over her and this was characteristic of many marriages during this period. This story argues that a husband's happiness simply does not imply the wife's happiness. The story argues that women were dependent upon their husbands. And this dependence was a culturally inscribed role. As a result, the wife's happiness was overlooked and deemed unimportant. With Brently gone, Louise actually begins to understand happiness for the first time: 

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.