Story Of An Hour Tragidy Analysis

while the first story related to only a slim few. Although these stories related to one another, they did not reach out to the same audience. There are only a few readers who can relate to both at the same time.

In the story of an hour it comes as a surprise to hear that her husband died in a train wreck. In the book The Interlopers it comes as a surprise that both men are willing to make up their differences and realize how stupid their lifelong Coral has been. In The Interlopers the suspense

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.

First of all, both stories are different because of their themes. The theme in In

In another way, these two stories are different because the authors have been using different perspective when narrating the story.

The narrators in the two stories both possess similar traits, but some aspects of each narrator are distinct. In “The Tell Tale Heart,” the narrator is

In ‘The Interlopers’ the man changed by forgiving and becoming friends with his enemy, which showed that he changed as a person and chose to be the bigger person. In ‘To build a fire’ the man didn’t change and was still naive when he went out into Alaska by himself and chose not to take anyone with him. This showed that he wanted to do things himself while the character in ‘The Interlopers’ decided to ask for forgiveness so that his men could help the other man also. Along with this both stories had strong characters, ‘the interlopers’ had a man who did everything he could to survive the freezing weather, even if that meant putting the dog's life before his, and in ‘To build a fire’ the man went over his own ego to make friends with his enemy to try to survive but sadly didn’t. But in the end both characters died even if they were caused by different deaths.

"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.

The comparison of "The Interlopers," and "Story of the Hour" is quite easy, considering the two stories only have a couple things in common. "The Interlopers," is about two men whose families hate each other and they have hated each other for centuries. the two men wonder upon each other one night and are furious that they're on each others land. In the midst of arguing lightening strikes a tree, and traps both of them under it.

The similarities in themes among the two stories is in the story “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard realizes that she is an independent woman before her husband returns alive and not harmful. In “The Chrysanthemums” Elisa’s talent goes to waste, yet she is independent as well while she is working in the

Anonymous p.21) While in The story of an hour has the ironic tone for the tragic ending of the story the author stated, “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease of the joy that kills”. (Heath Int. Chopin p.24) In both stories, the narrator point of view speaks in the third

Other differences within these stories that I had not really seen when reading other compare and contrast essays on these short stories would be that, while Louise stayed in a sunny, cheerful home, as described in the story of an hour: “There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other,” the two men in The Interlopers were weighed down with the dark and stormy woods all around them. Also, while Louise had felt a sense of freedom, Ulrich and Georg had gotten physically, rather than emotionally, trapped by the fallen branch in those very woods. While both of these stories, The Story of an hour and The Interlopers, have their similarities and their differences, there is one thing that is absolutely certain: Both stories are captivating and they make you want to read them again and again. So I highly recommend that once you are finished reading this essay that you go and read (or re-read) these stories for

During the majority of the book, the author tells you the first story, making the second story is harder to believe. While the two stories have similar ideas, certain changes make them quite different. Story one is the better story because of its strong and ongoing

“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)

In both, there is a twist at the end. Also in both a spouse dies. In both stories it starts it starts out piece full, in one a wife is cooking in the other a town is gathering. While the stories are similar, they are also different. In one, a wife is killed, in the other a husband.