"When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it. But her boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet."

"When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it. But her boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet." - page 59

Mrs. Pontellier tries to step and crush her wedding ring. She does not love her husband and does not want him any longer. She wants to be an independant woman, she wants a life of her own. Not only does she not love her husband but she really doesn't even love her children, it's as though she does not even know how to love or what love is. She cares for her children I suppose you could say but she does not mother them like a woman should or love them. She basically does not like the life she lives.