While reading the two stories The Story of an Hour and The Interlopers I noticed that these stories are completely different. Now most all stories or books have something alike and these two may have some similarities, but they're practically from to different worlds. The first topic I'm going to discuss is the characters. In The Story of an Hour the main character is Mrs.Mallard. In the beginning of the story we lezarn that she is afflicted with heart trouble. In The Interlopers the main character is Ulrich von Gradwits. The name to me sounds German or Romanian. I don't think U&lrich is married. The story also doesn'nt mention if he has any siblings but does make hints that he has a family. Maybe not children but a mother and father or grand mother and grand father. Where in The Story of an Hour it mentions Mrs.Mallards sister Joesphine and her newly diciest husband. You can clearly foresee her inside her house with her mother and father and her husband and sister eating an home made meal. Where as in The Interlopers you can't see Ulrich doing anything nut hunting or keeping constantly busy. Two very different characters. The setting is a whole different story. In The Interlopers is a forest or woods the Ulrich von Gradwitz's family owns. And in The Story of an Hour the …show more content…
In The Story of an Hour you get a lot of grief or sorrow. You get sadness also but I wanted to get deeper intpo the emotions I felt while reading the story. One emotion I think you will fill is sorrow or dejection. Now while I was reading The Interlopers I felt a little inquisitive because I really couldn't figure out where they were located exactly. It said somewhere in the eastern in the eastern spurs of the Carpathians which is an mountain range that starts in Slovacia and extends through Polan, Ukraine, and Romania. I also felt a little sorrow just like in The Story of an Hour. In this story something is always
“The Story of an Hour” was set in the era when women were expected to just be caretakers and nothing else while the story “Girl” is set in a more modern era when women were allowed to take on jobs outside of the home. Yet the expectations of women stay the same. The stories are set in different generations. It is stated that Mrs. Mallard is relatively young but she is still married and is in a different part of her lifecycle than the girl. The girl is an adolescent, not yet an adult yet she is facing the same crisis that an adult woman would face. The stories also differ in the culture and social backgrounds of the characters. Based on Chopin’s background, her characters are more or likely Creole, white, living in the south and relatively well-off. The mother and daughter in “Girl” are from a Caribbean island, black and not very wealthy. However they are both still exposed to societal roles for women. During the hundred years that separate the stories much has changed for women in the fact that they have the freedom to vote, to get an education and to work yet both Mrs. Mallard and the daughter in “Girl” seem desperate for the same freedom; the freedom to be who they want to be without society dictating
In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," Ambrose Bierce recreates a few brief seconds of time for a man being executed whose cognition of these seconds is perceived as the better part of a full day. "All that day he traveled…" (paragraph 33). "In "The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin relates a meaningful, yet unusual hour of time as the last one lived for a woman who has been given the news of her husband's death in a "railroad disaster" (paragraph 2). "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment…" (paragraph 3). Both stories are centered on the powerful emotions that occur within the minds of the characters as they live out the last moments of their lives. The narrators reveal the most intimate thoughts of each character.
One is that both of the stories end with the death of the main characters. In The Interlopers this is proved to be true as the author writes that wolves ungraciously approach the two trapped men(3). In ‘Story of an Hour’ Mrs. Mallard dies because of of disappointment and of heart disease--or as the doctor put it, “the joy that kills”(2.) Another similarity is that in both stories the antagonist is the reason for the situational irony at the end of each story. In ‘The Interlopers’ the wolves, being the newest antagonist are killed the Ulrich and Georg right after they defeated the late antagonist, which the inner-conflict of both men. In Story of an Hour, Mr. Mallard walks in the door after everyone thought he was dead, and Mrs. Mallard’s heart was lifted in spirits that she was no longer bound to him or so she thought. Mrs. Mallard’s death was thought by the other characters in the story to be the result of heart disease, but because the Doctor says she died of the joy that kills, the reader knows that she died because Mr. Mallard burst of Mrs. Mallard’s impression of
Both stories transpire in a brief period of time. The events in the ‘Story of an Hour” develop in just one hour from beginning to end. Mrs. Mal...
“The Interlopers by Saki” and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin are two short and stories that are unique in their own ways. Each utilizes certain elements to keep the reader intrigued to the end. However, though they might be similar in that way, they are still quite different from each other.
The two stories may have very different plots, but they share quite a few ideas. The stories share faint foreshadowing at the beginning. In the interlopers, the author mentions a strong storm brewing as the men wander the land. In the story of an hour, the author mentions how Louis has a heart disease.
Key Elements:The story of an hour · Plot: Standard plot. A woman who receive the notice of her husband's death, and when she begins to felt freedom her husband appear again and she can't accept it and fall died. · Characterization: Few characters a. Mrs. Mallard or Louise: Mallard's wife. Was afflicted with hearth trouble.
In the reading, "The Story of an Hour," many things weren’t as they seemed. This is called symbolism. Where one write something and it symbolizes another thing. For example, someone’s blood gets warmer. That wouldn’t symbolize them getting hot, it symbolizes them having a warm and happy feeling about something. This shows that things aren’t thought of as they are supposed to be. Symbolism also leads to hidden truths. Things that also don’t mean what they seem. Just as symbolism, hidden truths need to be thought out, and thoroughly processed in one’s head. In the reading, "The Story of an Hour," many things aren’t as they seem, leading to hidden truths, symbolism, and an unusual ending.
The two texts convey the theme of freedom over confinement by the use of symbols. In The Story of an Hour, after Mrs. Mallard rushes to her room she sits down in a comfortable chair and “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were aquiver with new spring and life.” The open window symbolizes freedom and opportunities that await her now that her husband is gone. Everything she is experiencing while looking out the window suggests feelings of joy and
Kate Chopin made use of every aspect of setting in "The Story of an Hour." Her use of setting permitted the reader to piece together an entire life story of the characters from a two page short story using his own interpretation of the veiled hints she left through description. Each of the different elements of setting, including time, location, social context, and environment, convey all the information that Ms. Chopin chose not to explicitly write. Analyzation of each element leads to a clearer picture of Mrs. Mallard's circumstances and actions, and a fuller understanding of the story itself.
“The Story of an Hour” was a story set in a time dominated by men. During this time women were dependent on men, but they always dreamed of freedom. Most people still think that men should be dominant and in control. They think that without men, women can’t do anything and that they can’t be happy. Well this story has a twist.
To begin with, The Story of An Hour and The Interlopers have complete different topics and main ideas. Of course, the two stories are not going to have the same plot or main idea. The Story of An Hour is about a wife who has a joyful feeling after she is told her husband has passed away, even
The only way to understand how these two separate stories compare is to craftily analyze each of them. In the book The Devil and Miss Prym, a small remote village is invaded by an outsider with the objective to find out if
“The Story of an Hour” is the story revolving around a young woman, Louise Mallard, who has a heart problem, and she receives news of her husband’s death by the train accident. Her sister, Josephine, told her about the news. At first, she is upset, her body cold, and her mind and heart were empty. But as she grieves, she realizes she is free to live a life that she dreams of living instead of that which her husband would have had her live. Unfortunately, at the end, she discovers that her husband is not dead, and dies of a possible heart attack.
...atural world, while “The Story of an Hour” depicts the culture of every day thinking and living. “The Raven” helps us understand the Romantic period, as the author showed all components to a fantastic piece of work written during the Romantic period. “The Story of an Hour” helps us understand the daily life of someone in the 1800's. After telling us about Mrs. Mallard's husband's job, we can automatically think in our heads about the Industrial Revolution and the effect it had on American history. In addition, the telegram reference tells us that their means of communication were rather different at the time. Then finally, her emotions toward her husband show that it's possible that not many women were happy in their marriage. The two works tell us about two different cultures during the 1800's, which can show major similarity and differences between 1845 and 1849.