Comparing The Interlopers And The Story Of An Hour

When most people think about a short story they immediately think of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox but short stories can be about anything that captures the attention of readers in a way that will leave you wanting more before the story ends. The Interlopers and The Story of an Hour are mostly about conflict and death, but each story shows that in a different way. While both stories are unique in their own ways, conflict and death overcome the characters so much that it becomes all they can think about, but what sometimes truly matters are not how they die but what happens just before. The Story of an Hour is about a women named Mrs. Mallard, who is inflicted with heart trouble, that had just learned from her friends that her husband, Richards, passed away in a railroad disaster. However, her husband was not dead, he was miles away from the scene but when people couldn’t find him they assumed him to be dead. When he comes home alive and well, Mrs. Mallards died right when she saw him due to her heart troubles, but as Mrs. Mallards tells in the story her and Richards didn’t have the best relationship. When Mrs. Mallards went into her room after hearing her husband died she couldn’t help but start to feel free as she would no longer have her husband there to hold her down. “She breathed a

After finally feeling free or have a sense of peace in their lives it would be ripped away from them by both dying in tragic ways. We learned in The Story of an Hour that Mrs. Mallards felt tied down to her husband and in The Interlopers both men had grown up hating each other and wished death on each other. Foreshadowing and irony also play a major role in the stories as well. In the beginning of The Story of an Hour that Mrs. Mallards had heart trouble and would later die of heart disease. In The Interlopers the author described a massive storm that would later break a tree and trap both