Compare And Contrast The Story Of An Hour And The Interlopers

With concern for her heart condition, Josephine cautiously broke the news to Mrs.Mallard that her husband had been killed in a train accident. Mrs. Mallard grieved for a while then decided she needed a minute alone, she went upstairs to where the window was open. As she sat trying to process her emotions, she found herself overwhelmed with joy, she felt free as last from her estranged marriage and looked forward to days for herself. Once she had composed herself, she began to head back downstairs noticing the front door opening as Mr. Mallard walked in. Per the doctors, she had died of heart disease from joy.

With the feeling of extreme terror, she runs out of the car looking for help. As she is racing as fast as she can, she thinks about running up the stairs trying to help her mom.

Focusing on her future freedoms she was interrupted at the door by her husband. There had been a mix up and Mr. Mallard was nowhere near the train accident. Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition could not take the weight of change and she passed away.

And eventually die together as comrades. In the story of an hour the irony is whenever Mrs. Mallard neighbors find out that her husband has died they try to break the news to her softly so that she will not die from her heart condition, but it turns out that her husband never died in a train wreck, so her surprise at seeing him walk in the door alive causes her to die. “

When her husband comes in she faints which gives her a chance to escape but she doesn't,

Upon hearing the news, Mrs. Mallard is overwhelmed with grief, which swiftly turned into hope. Mrs. Mallard’s reaction upon receiving the news of her husband 's death is considered to be unusually by society’s standards. In the beginning of the story it is revealed that Mrs, Mallard suffers heart problems; however, when it is revealed that her husband is dead her heart is relieved. She was thrilled that she was able to be her own person again. It was revealed through her reflection on her marriage that she “had loved him - sometimes” (16). Mrs. Mallard overcame is quick to overcome her grief after the realization that she has been set free of her horrible marriage. As a married woman, Mrs. Mallard is miserable, but as a widow she feels a sense of relief that she is free of her marital vows. At the end of the story Mrs. Mallard dies of a failing heart which it ironic because typically a woman would be filled with joy to find out

In “The Story of an Hour” we see Mrs. Louise Mallard receives news of the death of her husband. The

This being said because the author says that Mrs. Mallard had heart problems so her

Chopin expertly adds irony to the story by stating, “When the doctors came they say she had died from heart disease - of joy that kills” (8). However, the readers know that she died because of the sudden loss of her new found freedom. This develops irony because the characters didn’t know the excitement she felt when her spouse “passed away”, but the readers know she rejoiced in her freedom. From the characters point of view, it may seem she died because she was so excited her husband returned safely. After Mrs. Mallard barracked herself in her room, it is stated that she “Abandoned herself” and then started chanting “Free! Free! Free!” (7). This displays her excitement towards her husband's death. However, the other characters are fearing for her health since they believe she is not strong enough to get through the

“The Interlopes”, by Saki, tells about a feud between two neighbors over a small piece of precipitous forestland in the Carpathian mountains. Alternatively, “The Story of an Hour”, by Kate Chopin, portrays a young woman’s reaction to her husbands death. Despite the tremendous differences in environment and characters, the plots of these two stories are actually similar.

Mallard underwent a change when she came to the realization that she would no longer be under the control of her husband and was free. She began to think about all the time she would have to herself and “Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body” (Chopin 279). Her previous state of sadness and mourning over the loss of her husband diminished. However, her joyous outlook on her new life was short lived due to her death from her heart disease after she saw her husband, whom she thought was dead, walk through the door. This is an extremely drastic change for Mrs. Mallard because she went from being alive to being deceased.

Whatever side one picks on the character of Mrs. Mallard, it is hard to overlook her tragic ending. Some might disagree with the doctor’s opinion in the end of the story in that she died from “a joy that kills” (CITE). It could be quite the opposite, they might say she died in despair at the idea of her newly found freedom being taken

Mallard is expecting in the least that her husband will come to life. Whether it was Richard who should be held responsible or Mrs. Mallard’s fantasy, the fact remains that it was probably most likely the shock rather than the joy which killed Mrs. Mallard.

Mrs. Mallard is a woman that is suffering in marriage. We realize that she was not very optimistic about her married life. The night prior to the "death" of her husband, she had quietly prayed for her life to be short. She had reached a point of disillusionment and would gladly welcome death as an option out of the marriage. When she learns that her husband had perished in the train accident, she first reacts by

Mallard’s husband died due to a railroad disaster. Some of the key moments/episodes is when she began to get a lot of anxiety due to the thought of her not having her husband with her for the rest of her life. I believe that the way the author explained how Mrs. Mallard was getting anxiety foreshadowed how she might end up dead considering how she was afflicted with heart trouble. At the end of the story, it had an indeterminate ending with a twist... throughout the whole story, we all believed that her husband was dead which lead to Mrs. Mallard’s death due to heart disease. Thereafter, her husband arrived home too