Dramatic Irony In The Story Of An Hour

We recently read a story in class called “The Story of an Hour” where a woman thinks that her husband died so she is happy and excited and crying tears of joy while everyone else thinks her tears are because of sadness. In the end we find out that her husband is alive and she ends up dying of the surprise, but to this day people say she died of a broken heart which is all dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not.
One of the earliest examples of dramatic irony in the story happens in the beginning. In Paragraph 16 Josephine her sister is banging on the door yelling ““Louise open the door! I beg; open the door-you will make yourself ill. What are you doing, Louise? For heaven's