Story Of An Hour Irony Analysis

Many short stories have a manifold of juicy irony and twists in their plot sequences, which makes the text so much more entertaining. The writer’s are literally throwing all these curves balls at the reader that by the end of the story they’re completely blindsided by what they have just read. There are three types of irony these writers love to input into their short stories: Dramatic,Situational, and Verbal. These authors sprinkle these ironies into their work to express how a short story could be filled with such detail and care. These ironies often leave many of the readers confused or in suspense. To put it in a much simpler way of describing irony is sarcasm. Dramatic
Irony is what the characters or actions are clear to the reader but …show more content…
Symbolism is when a reader has to look beyond the written details of the texts,objects,and characters. A reader must be able to truly see why the author chose to use a specific location,object, or person. We often ask ourselves why the writer chose a certain name for a character,setting, or inanimate object. Everything the author uses in their short stories has a purpose and,or meaning. In the short story “The Story of an
Hour” by Kate Chopin has a numerous amount of irony and symbolism use throughout the story. Kate Chopin’s short story is about a young woman named Louise Mallard with suffers from heart disease. Her sister,Josephine, is having a difficult time trying to tell
Louise of her husbands death. Josephine finally works up the strength to tell Louise of her husband’s death in “broken sentences”. Louise goes to her room to grief, but to our surprise Louise goes to her room to express the joy she felt after hearing the news of her husband’s death. Her husband’s friend, Richard, comes to the house to help Louise cope with the news. Louise 's husband ends up walking through the door and Mrs.
Mallard ends up dieing of “the joy that kills.”
A number of symbolic and ironic references can be identified in Kate …show more content…
The Irony is Mrs.Mallard has heart disease and is able to take the news of her husband really well, makes the reader question whether or not Louise already knew of the supposed accident. Wix argues that “stress is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease.” It isn’t stated directly in the short story but we can infer she suffered from more than just heart disease. She suffered from the biological disease
“...but she also suffers from the disease of a marriage without love.”[schoolworkhelper]
Physically she suffers from heart disease but, how does a women so young have heart disease. Emotionally, Mrs. Mallard suffers pain in her heart that is not caused by her “heart disease” but by her husband, Brently Mallard, it isn’t stated directly but the reader can conclude this after the way she died.
The Dramatic Irony of the story is when Josephine helps Mrs.Mallard up stairs, but when Mrs.Mallard does “not let Josephine help her upstairs, it seems that she is so griefstricken that she wishes to be alone.”[2.hawaii] The reader knows that Louise