This went on for almost the whole story. When Mrs. Mallard’s sister told Mrs. Mallard that her husband died, she went to her room to be alone for a while. Nobody knew it, but while she was in there, she was thinking about how she never really was happy with Mr. Mallard. She got more and more excited until she was filled with joy that she was free now. No other character in the story knew this, however. They all thought that she was depressed that her husband had died. The reader is the only person other than Mrs. Mallard herself that knows she is happy. I think that this type of irony was used well, too. The story was built off of her excitement that the death of her husband had occurred, and nobody knew about it. That’s what made the story interesting. If this wasn’t included, it would be hard to really understand why Mrs. Mallard died at the end. It would make the story completely different. Barely anything would be interpreted the
This went on for almost the whole story. When Mrs. Mallard’s sister told Mrs. Mallard that her husband died, she went to her room to be alone for a while. Nobody knew it, but while she was in there, she was thinking about how she never really was happy with Mr. Mallard. She got more and more excited until she was filled with joy that she was free now. No other character in the story knew this, however. They all thought that she was depressed that her husband had died. The reader is the only person other than Mrs. Mallard herself that knows she is happy. I think that this type of irony was used well, too. The story was built off of her excitement that the death of her husband had occurred, and nobody knew about it. That’s what made the story interesting. If this wasn’t included, it would be hard to really understand why Mrs. Mallard died at the end. It would make the story completely different. Barely anything would be interpreted the