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Kate Chopin's Story Of An Hour

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In Kate Chopin’s Story of an Hour the reader receives a glimpse of many forms of irony, in the setting and in the story in general. The story opens in the home of the Mallards, where Mrs. Mallard just learned of the death of her husband. The story is set during an age where women were dependent on their husbands to care for them.
The timing of the story is a very crucial piece of the story, the story's plot would not make much sense for relationships now as the wife could simply just leave her husband in today's society. The actual year the story is set in is not revealed but it can be inferred by the way the wife is treated like her husband's property that the story is set in a time where that was a normal occurrence in America. The timing

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