Irony In Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

1-Irony refers to a gap or discrepancy between what is said and what is true, or between a result that is expected and what actually happens. In literature, readers often perceive irony that characters are unable to see. What is the central irony of "The Story of an Hour"? To get started, take a look at how the story is frames in the opening and closing paragraphs. What gap or discrepancy do you notice? Do the characters share your insight?

"Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble" as the story starts out telling the readers that the news of her husbands death has to be giving in a very delicate matter, that her sister stumbles over doing. Mrs. Mallard first reaction of "(crying ) with sudden, wild abandonment in her sister arm" (496-2)

with the supersize of her husband still being alive the doctors says " she had died of the heart disease of joy that kills." in fact: that while the marriage was working and not all that bad, she still wanted her freedom she thought she was going to have. Her death was a heart attack, and the realization that the freedom she thought she was going to get was gone and she have to go back to being someones wife.

2-What do you learn from the setting and, in particular, the language Chopin uses to describe what Mrs. Mallard experiences when, beginning in paragraph 4, she sits in her armchair, looking out of the window?

There is a lot of symbolization, open window ( new possibility) crispy blue sky, ( new beginnings)

3- ) Irony refers to a gap or discrepancy between what is said and what is true, or between a result that is expected and what actually happens. In literature, readers often perceive irony that characters are unable to see. What is the central irony of "The Story of an Hour"? To get started, take a look at how the story is frames in the opening and closing paragraphs. What gap or discrepancy do you notice? Do the characters share your