Comparing The Interlopers And The Story Of An Hour

Life is weird sometimes; you get messy, make mistakes, and things happen that are totally out of your control. In a way, you could say that our lives are like stories or plots in a book. To give you an example, I'm going to discuss two stories: “The Interlopers” ( written by Saki), and “The Story of an Hour” (written by Kate Chopin). Although these are both two different stories, I believe that they have some similar themes. In the short story “The Interlopers”, two families have made a mistake that turns into a full-blown feud between their families; their descendants can't change their history. The main character, Ulrich von Gradwitz, owns a stretch of wood and is patrolling the woods when he runs into his enemy and rival, Georg Znaeym. They are about to shoot each other when a tree falls on them, injuring and trapping them both under the fallen tree. They have to talk to each other and end up resolving the family feud. They call for help and they see what they think are their men coming, but it ends up being wolves. The story ends there, leaving …show more content…
Louise probably didn't have a healthy or good relationship with her husband, although the author writes “She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.”( “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin). Whatever the case of their marriage, she didn't really or truly love him, which makes me wonder why they got married in the first place. In “The Interlopers” however, there is a feud, but when the two characters get trapped and injured, they realize that the feud is stupid and that they could have been friends for all those years that they were enemies. They resolve the feud and have their hearts in the right place at their deaths, which is sad because they had finally become friends and then they are