Foreshadowing In The Interloper

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Interlopers” by Saki both have a comparable conflict and use similar literary elements such as foreshadowing and irony, however, each author uses these components in different ways to portray separate themes. Foreshadowing, which is often used in short stories, is seen in both “The Story of an Hour” and “The Interlopers, despite the fact that Chopin and Saki use mostly different tactics to evince the effects of this device. For example, Chopin and Saki originate and focus on foreshadowing using different scenarios. Chopin uses the physical condition of Mrs. Mallard to allude to her death, while Saki suggests the misfortune of Georg Znaeym and Ulrich von Gradwitz by their long rivalry over a piece

The conflict in “The Story of an Hour” is Mrs. Mallard’s relationship with her husband, Brently. The quotes, “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead” (Chopin) and “And yet she had loved him---sometimes” (Chopin) prove that Brently and Josephine Mallard’s relationship was not healthy or loving. As for “The Interlopers”, the bad relationship was that of a long lasting neighbor feud. The words “embittered the relationships” and “neighbor feud..grown..personal” describes the indifference between Znaeym and Gradwitz. Each conflict was similar by being external, however, one conflict was left unresolved and one resolved. Brently and Josephine Mallard’s relationship was left unmended because Brently never knew of Josephine’s feelings toward him before she died. On the other hand, Znaeym and Gradwitz’s relationship was mended when they realized the unimportance of loathing each other in their given situation. Znaeym even says, “I never thought to have wanted to do other than hate you all my life, but I think I have changed my mind…”. So, although the conflict was similar in these short stories, each had a different