This technique is defined as “the act or instance of placing two or more things side by side” (Merriam-Webster). In “The Story of an Hour” there is a clear example of juxtaposition when Mrs. Mallard is thinking about her husband’s funeral. The juxtaposition is very clear in the body language of the characters. “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. But she saw beyond that bitter moment […] And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome”. By contrasting two very different actions, Chopin was able to represent the changes that Mrs. Mallard expected after her husband’s
This technique is defined as “the act or instance of placing two or more things side by side” (Merriam-Webster). In “The Story of an Hour” there is a clear example of juxtaposition when Mrs. Mallard is thinking about her husband’s funeral. The juxtaposition is very clear in the body language of the characters. “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. But she saw beyond that bitter moment […] And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome”. By contrasting two very different actions, Chopin was able to represent the changes that Mrs. Mallard expected after her husband’s