“Life is full of surprises”, that basically sums up the novel “Story of an Hour” By Kate Chopin. In this story Mrs.Mallard is informed that her husband had died due to a railroad accident. Mrs.Mallard was sad about her husband's death, but later rejoiced realizing that she was free from his labor. However Mr.Mallard wasn’t dead and Mrs.Mallard was so shocked that she died herself due to a heart failure. The two irony for this essay is situational irony because it talks about Relationships and Gender inequality
The first irony is the situational irony. In the story Mr.Mallard is claimed dead, but at the end of the story we know that he is still alive and Mrs.Mallard is so shocked that she died herself. In the story it quoted “Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his gripsack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion …show more content…
In the story it stated “And yet she had loved him - sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!” (Chopin 1894). This explains that Mrs.Mallard was very happy that her husband died and the way the story interpreted it was as if she was free from being imprisoned. It also seemed that they did not have a very happy marriage if Mrs.Mallard was happy about a death.
In the novel Story of an Hour, the two irony was that not all marriages are perfect and that there is no gender equality in this timeline. Mrs.Mallard doesn't seem to like her husband if she is happy about his death and to die herself when she saw that he was still
The first irony is the situational irony. In the story Mr.Mallard is claimed dead, but at the end of the story we know that he is still alive and Mrs.Mallard is so shocked that she died herself. In the story it quoted “Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his gripsack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion …show more content…
In the story it stated “And yet she had loved him - sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!” (Chopin 1894). This explains that Mrs.Mallard was very happy that her husband died and the way the story interpreted it was as if she was free from being imprisoned. It also seemed that they did not have a very happy marriage if Mrs.Mallard was happy about a death.
In the novel Story of an Hour, the two irony was that not all marriages are perfect and that there is no gender equality in this timeline. Mrs.Mallard doesn't seem to like her husband if she is happy about his death and to die herself when she saw that he was still