Comparing Story Of An Hour And The Interlopers

When the woman in The Story of an Hour is told the news of her husband’s death, she is treated as a fragile as a flower, like there is no way she is strong enough to take this type of news. There are many ways to take her reaction of sobbing, but it seems that she does this because she is sad. But when it’s considered in a different life it seems she does this because her husband’s death opens up a world of opportunity to her. As a housewife in the 1800s she was expected to stay home, cook, clean, raise kids and basically pamper her husband. Even if she loved

Some of the things that are very different about these two stories are the setting. In The Interlopers the setting is outside in the woods on a cold and stormy winter night. In the story of an hour the setting is in an apartment building during a warm sunny spring day. Another thing that is very different between the two stories is the characters in the story The Interlopers the characters are two rough German men who are are disputing over a piece of land. The story of hour however a features a woman in a cozy little apartment with a heart problem. You also see her sister friend and

"The Interlopers" an "The story of an hour" are both very eventful short stories. The characters and setting of both stories have big life changing decisions. There is a lot of differences but there is also a lost of similarities.

“ ...For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” (James 4:14) Words of truth from the book of truth. We have no idea how long our lives will be on this earth. This concept is brought to light even more in the two short stories we will be discussing, “The Story of an Hour” and “The Interlopers”. These two stories share some similarities and some differences that we will be looking at. These two stories show us a very important concept… “The Story of an Hour” and “The Interlopers” are perfect examples of how the expected does not always happen.

I chose to do my analysis on the short story, “The Story Of An Hour”. The themes I see in this story is the quest for identity/coming of age, romantic/love, birth, and death. It is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard. She was an elderly lady and had a heart complications. Her sister Josephine and her husband’s friend Richards had to break the news to her that her husband, Brently Mallard, has been killed in a railroad disaster. Mrs. Mallard was sorrowful and sobbed in her sisters’ arms. After her grieving process, she wanted to be alone, so she went to her room and locked herself in. As she sat in the window, she seem to be calmer and accepted her husband’s death. She was not distressed of what had happened. She began to say the words “free” and her heart

“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.

The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin is the tragic story of a woman whose newfound position as a widow gives her strength. She develops a sense of freedom as she embraces her husband's death as an opportunity to establish her own identity. The tragedy is when her newfound identity gets stripped away as the appearance of her husband reveals that he is still alive. The disappointment from this tragedy kills her with a heart attack symbolizing the many conflicts that she faced throughout the story. The conflicts the character faces within herself and society show that the social norms for women were suppressing to their strength and individuality as human beings.

In “The Story of an Hour”, the main character Mrs. Mallard, gets news that her husband has been killed in an accident. Her sister delays telling her the news because she has a bad heart, but when she finally tells the news, Mrs. Mallard wants to be left alone. They think that she is very upset by her husband’s death, but

"The Story of an Hour" involves one married couple and when the wife, Mrs. Mallard, hears her husband has died in a railroad disaster she breaks down into tears. Moments after sitting in her chair weeping she begins to feel free to do as she wants now that he has passed on. As she approaches the stairs in her home the door opens and her husband stands alive and well. When the doctors arrive they say Mrs. Mallard ."..had died of a heart disease-of joy that kills." In both of these short stories the wives seem to share the foul qualities of selfishness, unfaithfulness and confusion.

During a time of sadness, and pain people will oftentimes tell jokes. The dying friend kept telling jokes in which at times made the narrator uncomfortable such as “Tell me things I won’t mind forgetting,” she says, in acknowledgment that she will not be around long enough to have to remember anything meaningful in her life. Near the ending of the story, the narrator’s language similarly indicates her denial of her friend’s death. Even though the tale does not pertain directly to her dying friend, it symbolizes how obsessed with death the narrator is. Different on how language is used in "The Story of an Hour," The biggest concern was not whether her husband lived or died.

Compare and Contrast Essay Reading short stories is often enjoyable, as each individual story varies quite a bit from the others. Although short stories follow a pattern, they have many different themes. Though ‘The Story of an Hour’ by Kate Chopin and ‘The Interlopers’ by Saki seem unrelated at first glance, there are similar themes in both. The main character in ‘The Story of an Hour’ is quite fragile and has a weak heart, making her prone to heart attacks under duress, since she was “afflicted with a heart trouble” (Chopin).

In Story of an Hour the wife felt like she was being dominated by her husband it doesn’t really reveal what he was doing that made her feel like she was being dominated but I think he never let her leave the house and that could really get on someone's nerves. The relationship that this woman had with her husband must not have been very good, because when she hears news of his possible death she is so filled with joy that she goes to her room stares out the window and starts imagining all of the things she can do now without him. At the end of the story the woman is walking down the stairs and to her surprise her husband comes through the door and when this happens she falls over dead

“The Story of an Hour” is a story about a woman, Mrs. Mallard, who comes to find that her beloved husband Brently Mallard was killed in a railroad incident. She mourns of his death in a different way than most would and tries to find a way to get over it. There is a drastic twist to the story when through the front door walks Brently Mallard who had actually not died. Then Mrs. Mallard drops to the floor dead, “of joy that kills”. (The Story of an Hour)

“The Story of The Hour” fully answers its title. It is a story about a woman living her last hour. Not so many things happen during that hour, but in contrast, many thoughts fly through main character’s head and a reader can form an accurate portrait of a woman’s life from these thoughts. Somebody tells her that her husband is dead. After that she dives into the whirl of thoughts regarding the impact of husband’s death on her future. Some facts or beliefs make this woman think that her husband’s death is a rather fortunate event. It all ends soon after that, when she sees her husband alive and dies. In “The Story of The Hour” Kate Chopin doubts mere foundation of a thing called “marriage” and suggests an alternative viewpoint based on early examples of a feminist movement.

“The Story of an Hour” was narrated by the third person. The main character Mrs. Mallard is a housewife and she has a heart trouble. Her Husband dies in a railroad disaster. When she heard the news, “she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms” (Pg 93). She did not cry out immediately, she seems shocked for a while and suddenly break out. From my opinion, she isn’t shocked, she is surprised. She is not just cry for the death of Mr. Mallard, but also for the free life that she’s going to live. She has been trapped and pressed for so long. Husband’s