The_Story_Of_An_Hour

The Story Of An Hour The Story of an Hour The Usage of Irony In the story of an hour, Kate Chopin uses a great amount of irony to accomplish many unexpected twists and turns. What Chopin is trying to make us understand through irony, is that freedom, in the 19th Century is something women are not entitled to; and the few who experience it, shall never lose it, for otherwise, their lives would feel as if they had died. The story narrates the response of a woman back in the 19th Century, who was told that her husband had died in a traffic accident. Kate Chopin makes a very interesting connection with the feelings of the woman. Since Chopin had become a widow at a very young age too. Oscar Chopin, her husband, died in December of 1882 when she was only 32 years old leaving her alone and a businesswoman. Irony is introduced in the story from the very beginning “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble…” By doing this, the author makes the reader focus in the different possibilities of each sentence, for example what she really meant in this sentence is that she was not happy and did not love story, hour, irony, chopin, husband, very, realizes, reader, makes, interesting, died, woman, without, understand, surprise, since, sentence, really, mrs, moment, meant, mallard, make, living, live, kate, happy, happiness, freedom, feelings, century, become, 19th, young, years, world