Irony In Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin is a short story that describes a few ironic events that take place all in one hour. Louise is a younger women, but she does actually have problems with her heart.This story was taken place long ago in a middle-class home. Back in this time period, men stayed out all day working while the women stayed at the house to attend her wife duties as to clean and have everything prepared for the day. Therefore, Louise Mallard didn’t have much of a outside free life because of her marriage with Brently Mallard.

The story starts off as Louise Mallard sitting up in her room when her little sister Josephine calmly broke the news to her of her husband Brently Mallard’s death. Louise went straight to her

She imagines in her head, an independent, long, and better life without having to live under someone else. She was just sitting there until her little sister came knocking on her door telling her to open up. As she opened the door, her sister grabbed her arm pulling her out the door and down the stairs. While walking down she noticed someone opening up the front door. She couldn’t believe what was in front of her. There stood her husband, the one she had been mourning over but also very relieved of his

The verbal irony in the story comes out when Josephine comes to the door telling her that she needs to come out or else she’s gonna make herself ill. She then listens to her sister and opens the door while her sister guides her to the stairs. After Mr. Mallard came in Louise died, and that where the irony comes into play. The verbal irony comes out when Josephine told Louise that she would be ill if she didn’t come out of her room, but right after she left her room she became ill and died which is ironic. The dramatic irony comes into play when the doctors say that the reason she died was because of the joy that kills. Well, it’s ironic because the reason was pretty much the opposite, she died because he snatched her joy right back away not because she got too happy. And finally, the biggest example of irony used in this story is situational irony. At first Louisse figures out that her husband is dead, and soon she pretty much becomes fully alive with joy, but in the end pretty much the exact opposite happens. Mr. Mallard walks in the house alive, then Louise ends up