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Story Of An Hour Vs Interlopers Essay

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Two stories. Three people. All on a journey. One on a life journey, the other on a journey to end a life. One a story of heartbreak, the other a story of a rivalry that is given up for a friendship.
The stories, The story of an hour by Kate Chopin and The Interlopers by Saki both end in the same way. Death. But they don't begin as such. Where one story takes place over the time span of an hour, the other story takes place over many hours.

The first story that we will be looking at is The story of an hour.
In this short story, a woman by the name of Louise Mallard is the main character, a character who has just received some rather dark and shocking news from her sister. Her husband, Brently, has just been killed in the result of a railroad …show more content…

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

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