While reading the two stories The Story of an Hour and The Interlopers I noticed that these stories are completely different. Now most all stories or books have something alike and these two may have some similarities, but they're practically from to different worlds. The first topic I'm going to discuss is the characters. In The Story of an Hour the main character is Mrs.Mallard. In the beginning of the story we lezarn that she is afflicted with heart trouble. In The Interlopers the main character is Ulrich von Gradwits. The name to me sounds German or Romanian. I don't think U&lrich is married. The story also doesn'nt mention if he has any siblings but does make hints that he has a family. Maybe not children but a mother and father or grand mother and grand father. Where in The Story of an Hour it mentions Mrs.Mallards sister Joesphine and her newly diciest husband. You can clearly foresee her inside her house with her mother and father and her husband and sister eating an home made meal. Where as in The Interlopers you can't see Ulrich doing anything nut hunting or keeping constantly busy. Two very different characters. The setting is a whole different story. In The Interlopers is a forest or woods the Ulrich von Gradwitz's family owns. And in The Story of an Hour the …show more content…
In The Story of an Hour you get a lot of grief or sorrow. You get sadness also but I wanted to get deeper intpo the emotions I felt while reading the story. One emotion I think you will fill is sorrow or dejection. Now while I was reading The Interlopers I felt a little inquisitive because I really couldn't figure out where they were located exactly. It said somewhere in the eastern in the eastern spurs of the Carpathians which is an mountain range that starts in Slovacia and extends through Polan, Ukraine, and Romania. I also felt a little sorrow just like in The Story of an Hour. In this story something is always
Straight off the bat, we see some obvious differences and contrasts in these stories. On one hand, neighbors Ulrich and Georg have had a long-lasting feud that has been passed down through their families. Both sides believe a small area within a large forest belongs to them. On the other hand, Louise Mallard had no feud with her husband. It wasn't that
It is important to note how each individual story is similar and different, because it allows us to understand how the emotions in the book affect us. ‘The Interlopers’ and ‘Story of an Hour’ are two of my favorite short stories. They are both very different, and have their own unique style. They are, also, somewhat similar. This is because the authors of the book are both similar and different, both in their backgrounds and personalities. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting both short stories from my own point of view.
The Story of an Hour is about a woman, Mrs. Mallard, who suffers with a heart problem. Her husband’s friend, Richards, and her sister Josephine have to tell Mrs. Mallard that her husband has died in a train accident. They are both concerned that this news might danger Mrs. Mallard’s health. However, when Mrs. Mallard hears about the news, she feels excitement and a spur of freeness. Even though her husband is dead, she doesn’t have to live the depressing life she has been living. Mrs. Mallard sits in a chair and then whispers, “Free, free, free!” She knows that she will cry again when she sees him dead. But she keeps whispering, “Free! Body and soul free!” Josephine kneels at the door and tells Mrs. Mallard to open the door. Mrs. Mallard makes a quick prayer that life might be long and then opens the door. Together, they go downstairs. Someone is opening the front door, and it is Brently Mallard, Mrs. Mallard’s husband. He had been far away from the accident and didn’t know there had been one. Richards tries to cover him from the view of his wife, however he is too late. When the doctors come they say she has died of heart disease.
Both stories transpire in a brief period of time. The events in the ‘Story of an Hour” develop in just one hour from beginning to end. Mrs. Mal...
The two stories may have very different plots, but they share quite a few ideas. The stories share faint foreshadowing at the beginning. In the interlopers, the author mentions a strong storm brewing as the men wander the land. In the story of an hour, the author mentions how Louis has a heart disease.
“The Story of an Hour” was set in the era when women were expected to just be caretakers and nothing else while the story “Girl” is set in a more modern era when women were allowed to take on jobs outside of the home. Yet the expectations of women stay the same. The stories are set in different generations. It is stated that Mrs. Mallard is relatively young but she is still married and is in a different part of her lifecycle than the girl. The girl is an adolescent, not yet an adult yet she is facing the same crisis that an adult woman would face. The stories also differ in the culture and social backgrounds of the characters. Based on Chopin’s background, her characters are more or likely Creole, white, living in the south and relatively well-off. The mother and daughter in “Girl” are from a Caribbean island, black and not very wealthy. However they are both still exposed to societal roles for women. During the hundred years that separate the stories much has changed for women in the fact that they have the freedom to vote, to get an education and to work yet both Mrs. Mallard and the daughter in “Girl” seem desperate for the same freedom; the freedom to be who they want to be without society dictating
Kate Chopin made use of every aspect of setting in "The Story of an Hour." Her use of setting permitted the reader to piece together an entire life story of the characters from a two page short story using his own interpretation of the veiled hints she left through description. Each of the different elements of setting, including time, location, social context, and environment, convey all the information that Ms. Chopin chose not to explicitly write. Analyzation of each element leads to a clearer picture of Mrs. Mallard's circumstances and actions, and a fuller understanding of the story itself.
To begin with, The Story of An Hour and The Interlopers have complete different topics and main ideas. Of course, the two stories are not going to have the same plot or main idea. The Story of An Hour is about a wife who has a joyful feeling after she is told her husband has passed away, even
“The Interlopers” is rather lengthy, from a third person point of view, while The Story of an Hour is brief and somewhat concise, but also from third person. Because of its length, “The Interlopers” contains a substantial amount of detail about the environment and characters. It allows for more background about the events of the story. Because of “The Story of an Hour”’s length, it only provides the names of the characters, and not too much about them. Regardless of that, both “The Interlopers” and “The Story of an Hour” provide enough insight to inform the reader of the characters and events.
The only way to understand how these two separate stories compare is to craftily analyze each of them. In the book The Devil and Miss Prym, a small remote village is invaded by an outsider with the objective to find out if
“The Story of an Hour” is the story revolving around a young woman, Louise Mallard, who has a heart problem, and she receives news of her husband’s death by the train accident. Her sister, Josephine, told her about the news. At first, she is upset, her body cold, and her mind and heart were empty. But as she grieves, she realizes she is free to live a life that she dreams of living instead of that which her husband would have had her live. Unfortunately, at the end, she discovers that her husband is not dead, and dies of a possible heart attack.
The two texts convey the theme of freedom over confinement by the use of symbols. In The Story of an Hour, after Mrs. Mallard rushes to her room she sits down in a comfortable chair and “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were aquiver with new spring and life.” The open window symbolizes freedom and opportunities that await her now that her husband is gone. Everything she is experiencing while looking out the window suggests feelings of joy and
...atural world, while “The Story of an Hour” depicts the culture of every day thinking and living. “The Raven” helps us understand the Romantic period, as the author showed all components to a fantastic piece of work written during the Romantic period. “The Story of an Hour” helps us understand the daily life of someone in the 1800's. After telling us about Mrs. Mallard's husband's job, we can automatically think in our heads about the Industrial Revolution and the effect it had on American history. In addition, the telegram reference tells us that their means of communication were rather different at the time. Then finally, her emotions toward her husband show that it's possible that not many women were happy in their marriage. The two works tell us about two different cultures during the 1800's, which can show major similarity and differences between 1845 and 1849.
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Key Elements:The story of an hour · Plot: Standard plot. A woman who receive the notice of her husband's death, and when she begins to felt freedom her husband appear again and she can't accept it and fall died. · Characterization: Few characters a. Mrs. Mallard or Louise: Mallard's wife. Was afflicted with hearth trouble.