Comparing Love In L. A And The Story Of An Hour

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Dreams sometimes doesn’t exists until you work hard to get it. “Love in L.A” and “The story of an hour” both has almost similar traits in both characters Mrs. Mallard and Jake, like dreaming of happiness, freedom and living in a luxurious life. And that both were selfish and they weren’t thankful to god that one of them has a house to sleep in and the other has a car unlike so many people. People thought that when Mrs. Mallard’s husband died that she is sad all the time, but the truth was discovered after she was died. They discovered that Mrs. Mallard was died of happiness and joy. And some people think that she died from happiness when she saw her husband. But I think that she died because her Husband left for her a long life and she
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She can do whatever she wants. And it is stated in the story that she was full of joy and happiness when her husband died. “Free! Body and soul free!? She kept whispering”. Her husband’s friend Richards was with her and she convinced them by crying that is very sad. But I think that at the beginning she was sad because she loved her husband. Moreover, when time passed she knew that life might be better without him and that she can enjoy it without him. “when the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease- of joy that kills”. This mean that she was happy to the fullest, so she died. In the other hand, “Love in L.A” was very similar to “The story of an hour”. When Jake was stuck in the traffic, what was the first thing he dreamt of? he dreamt of cars and to live in a luxurious

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