In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” the character is not particularly relevant to the overall effect of the story compared to Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. In the first sentence we were informed about Louise Mallard, a wife with heart problem whose husband is reportedly killed in a train accident. With that said, the description of the character Louise is limited. However, as the story is told we get to know more of the character through her emotions. The author is able to deeply engage the reader into the tragedy Louise is experiencing and to sympathize with the character’s loss. When her sister, Josephine, breaks the news to Louise, she cries dramatically rather than feeling numb, which demonstrates the significance
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In fact, the protagonist, Peyton Farquar, is described in order to be relevant to the overall effect of the story, unlike Chopin’s Louise Mallard. In the first section of the story we learn that a man was going to be hung by the Union army for trying to destroy the railroad bridge at Owl Creek. He is described as a thirty-five year-old man with large dark grey eyes, a pointed beard, a straight nose, a firm mouth and with dark hair combed straight back. He was the son of a privileged dandy man and he is described as a confederacy supporter, but to his disadvantage he was not well prepared to for the rigors faced among the front lines of the Civil War. The circumstances that “somehow” prevented Farquhar from taking his service in the Confederate army, made him desperate to contribute. Nevertheless, “no service was too humble for him to preform in aid of the South, no adventure to perilous to …show more content…
So, Farquhar set off and he was captured by the Federal Army. Before Farquhar was hung, his mind takes him through a heroic escape. Ambrose well describes the escape in a dream-like style. He demonstrates the mind’s ability to escape reality, and to escape the inevitable. Farquhar imagined his escape in the split seconds before his death. Through the illusion of Peyton Farquhar we are shown the natural human desire to become
In fact, the protagonist, Peyton Farquar, is described in order to be relevant to the overall effect of the story, unlike Chopin’s Louise Mallard. In the first section of the story we learn that a man was going to be hung by the Union army for trying to destroy the railroad bridge at Owl Creek. He is described as a thirty-five year-old man with large dark grey eyes, a pointed beard, a straight nose, a firm mouth and with dark hair combed straight back. He was the son of a privileged dandy man and he is described as a confederacy supporter, but to his disadvantage he was not well prepared to for the rigors faced among the front lines of the Civil War. The circumstances that “somehow” prevented Farquhar from taking his service in the Confederate army, made him desperate to contribute. Nevertheless, “no service was too humble for him to preform in aid of the South, no adventure to perilous to …show more content…
So, Farquhar set off and he was captured by the Federal Army. Before Farquhar was hung, his mind takes him through a heroic escape. Ambrose well describes the escape in a dream-like style. He demonstrates the mind’s ability to escape reality, and to escape the inevitable. Farquhar imagined his escape in the split seconds before his death. Through the illusion of Peyton Farquhar we are shown the natural human desire to become