Situational Irony In Short Story Of An Hour

Imagine the nice cool view out of the window of flowers blooming and a light dash of rain, as if you were Mrs. Mallard. The sad but joyful tears coming from her eyes , because of the news she has just received; her husband has just been in an accident and was killed, or was said to be. As her sister came and got her from upstairs, going downstairs her husband walks in the house. Booom she had died of joy, or so they say. Situational irony is the key of most stories. It is when the story comes out to be not what you expected it to be like, but the opposite of what you expected. Just like when I expected that she would have been sad about her husband dying the whole time, but she was joyful. Situational irony is very important to the plot of a story, it is what makes the story interesting and gets the reader thinking. If were not to be used, the story wouldn't be as interesting for the reader. Dramatic irony is when the reader understands more about the events of the story than a character. I knew that there was going to be some drama by the wife, because before the story we discussed over what was going to happen before we read the book. It was used ok in my visual response. Dramatic irony as Situational irony is important. It lets the reader a little something about what is going to happen (foreshadow). …show more content…
This story was written great with different types of figurative language; terrific imagery. If I were to make changes I probably would’ve kept the

husband“dead” and let mrs. Mallard go on to see what she would do with her life, then bring the husband back into the story. This story had an amazing theme also; “Do Not Get Your Hopes