Comparing The Interlopers And The Story Of An Hour

The two stories I have chosen are named, “The Interlopers” and “The Story of an Hour”. They are two very different stories with completely different characters, settings, plots, and writers. But of course they do still have similarities. For example, they are both in the catagory of short stories. So here are four topic, each with at least two examples from the stories to support the topic. The first topic is the setting of the two stories. The settings are hard to contrast considering “The Story of an Hour” has limited information about the setting. The information that we can get is that it tells that Mrs. Mallard is in her home. Kate Chopin (the author) is not specific about the color of her home, or what city, town, or country. She does say that Mrs. Mallard say she goes up a staircase, so we know the house is at least two floors. Besides that, she leaves Josephine to go to her room to cry, but that's all there is on the setting. In “The Interlopers”, the story takes place in the Carpathian Mountains. It also says that it takes place in a forest in the mountains. Unlike Mrs. Mallard, safe in her own warm home, Georg and Ulrich are outside. In the Mountains it is a "wind- scouraged winter night”. …show more content…
In both stories, at leats one death occurs. In The Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard is mourning after her husbands death. On top of that, she finds that her husband is actually alive, and she herself dies when she sees him because she has heart issues. In the story The Interlopers, the men start out wanting to kill each other. They are full of hate and anger. In contrast, Mrs. Mallard loves her husband and is sad that her husband is gone. Another difference is in the way the deaths occured. Mrs. Mallard died of natural causes. But in The Interlopers, Georg and Ulrich were killed. The main contrast is that in one story, their are survivors, in the other there are