Irony In Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

1-Irony refers to a gap or discrepancy between what is said and what is true, or between a result that is expected and what actually happens. In literature, readers often perceive irony that characters are unable to see. What is the central irony of "The Story of an Hour"? To get started, take a look at how the story is frames in the opening and closing paragraphs. What gap or discrepancy do you notice? Do the characters share your insight?

"Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble" as the story starts out telling the readers that the news of her husbands death has to be giving in a very delicate matter, that her sister stumbles over doing. Mrs. Mallard first reaction of "(crying ) with sudden, wild abandonment in her sister arm" (496-2)

She is truly sad that her husband has passed, that the life she knows is about to drastically going to change.
Going through some changes of emotion, empty and hollow at first. she is in a slump of dis-belief , " now there was a dull stare in her eye" (496-8) , but at the same time she sitting in front of an open window. meaning that things ( life) is opening up to her now. she has possibility's. The is a lot of positive images , blue sky. birds, life goes on.
"There was something coming (for) her and she was waiting for it? fearfully. What was it?" (496-9) There a new feeling coming to her from the grief of her husband death. Mrs. Mallard is realizing that she can and be able yo live life for her self, not just as someones wife. she can be " Free, Free,Free!" (496-11)
Not that her husband was abusive, she knows her husband tried to show her love and be a good husband, but couldn't help putting his will on her. there would no longer be her husband bending her will to his. there be no more worry about what her husband thinks about everything. no one to have to obey.
"free body and soul free!" she realized she has a since of freedom, and with this since she is surprised by it , but yet she like the idea of it all.
" there was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwillingly like a goddess of victory"(497-20)she has self-control;, something she hasn't been able to have before as someone's wife.

with the supersize of her husband still being alive the doctors says " she had died of the heart disease of joy that kills." in fact: that while the marriage was working and not all that bad, she still wanted her freedom she thought she was going to have. Her death was a heart attack, and the realization that the freedom she thought she was going to get was gone and she have to go back to being someones wife.

2-What do you learn from the setting and, in particular, the language Chopin uses to describe what Mrs. Mallard experiences when, beginning in paragraph 4, she sits in her armchair, looking out of the window?

There is a lot of symbolization, open window ( new possibility) crispy blue sky, ( new beginnings)

3- ) Irony refers to a gap or discrepancy between what is said and what is true, or between a result that is expected and what actually happens. In literature, readers often perceive irony that characters are unable to see. What is the central irony of "The Story of an Hour"? To get started, take a look at how the story is frames in the opening and closing paragraphs. What gap or discrepancy do you notice? Do the characters share your

insight?
Nineteenth century, Chopin was saying woman don't have an identity, there were someone wife, and had to do the will of their husbands. Men had the power and control over all in a man's life even his wife. A man's job was to provide and protect their wife, by all means possibly, even by tell them how they should or shouldnt feel.