Story Of An Hour 'And Hills Like White Elephants'

Kate Chopin and Ernest Hemingway make good use of literary devices such as imagery, symbolism, irony, metaphors, and repetition to give more meaning to their beautiful stories. Literary devices create layers of meaning behind something that may not have been apparent or brought to attention without their incredible use of all these literary devices. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is about a woman, Louis Mallard, who learns of her husband’s death imagines a whole new free life for herself without him. Meanwhile, “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is a remarkable short story about a couple discussing a serious part of their relationship meanwhile never actually revealing what the subject is. These two stories are both very compelling and complicated in their own way because they explore changes to womanhood that society deems invaluable. In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, Louis Mallard plays the main character that experiences a wide variety of emotions and events within an hour. She had just learned that the train her husband was supposed to be on crashed, and while she mourns for his death, she cannot help but feel relieved by the loss. Louis is finally free of the constraints he and society put on her. However, …show more content…
Mallard as she talks about her experience of marriage. “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature” (Chopin 61). Mrs. Mallard did not live in an abusive relation, however; one can clearly see the social position women were placed into. They were not allowed to live their lives for themselves and were viewed as the weaker sex. This story hints that Mrs. Mallard's husband dominated his