Do you think that Homer Plessy had the right to sit in the coach section?

What is the authors purpose in writing this paragraph

The following line from "the story of an hour" provides mrs. mallard's view of marriage: "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."which word emphasizes male dominance in marriage?

Which point(s) of view do whitman's and coleridge's speaker use ?