The Interloper Compare And Contrast Essay

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Short stories or any stories in general can have such a great way to be expressed. A way which is why it is so attracted to readers. Two short stories can be so similar and so different it's amazing. While reading The Story of An Hour and The Interlopers, it came much to mind how similar but different the two stories can be. The two short stories show great irony and include foreshadowing, but they deal with different topics, have a different mood and different types of irony. 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 …show more content…

All stories give off a certain mood, whether it's bright and happy or dark and suspenseful. In this case, The Story of An Hour gives off a very suspenseful and gloomy mood throughout the whole. While reading, you're always questioning why the wife feels this way or what could've possibly happened to her to feel that way. In The Interlopers however, the mood transitions from dark and suspenseful to a bit humorous and opposing to what is expected. As the story goes on, the two enemies get trapped together, leaving them no choice but to help each other out, you get a humorous feeling and don't know what to expect. Other than the two moods of the stories, they end with a surprising twist. In The Story of An Hour towards the very end, the husband turns up alive causing the death of the wife from the shock. Similarily, in the end of The Interlopers, finally they see help coming but when they look closely, it's a pack of wolves. Readers can only imagine what happens after that. You never know what to expect from a story, it's

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