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Recommended: The character of Mrs. Mallard in the story of an hour

Literary Analysis
Imagine that someone is joyful and happy, because he/she is free itself. But suddenly it turns around for the worse situation. For this purpose, the author Kate Chopin written the short story called, “The Story of an Hour”. This summary is mostly about when Mrs. Mallard heard the news that her husband is listed as killed. At first she was very depressed and cried lot because of results from the news. But all of suddenly her feeling have change in happy and enjoy mood of herself. In the end when she didn’t know and realized that her husband is still alive, she was very shock, cried and then suddenly passed away as result of heart disease. For this thesis statement, its result that she was applied by few example of irony that help support of this story.
For the example that support of this story is situation irony. situation irony is the story that would expect to been happened and what did really happened. For the quotes that show an example of situation irony is, “There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella.” This analysis of the quote that at first, she’s was in charge of her own house because she was very happy to enjoy herself without her husband. But suddenly, she saw her husband who appears to be alive and walking into the house that she sudden to cried herself and died of heart attack. For another quote of the situation irony in this story. “Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word esc...

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...e Chopin. The review of this summary about one character named Mrs.

Mallard where at her house with Richard and her sister Josephine heard breaking news

that her husband was killed in accident scene. At first, she ran to upside to her room only,

because of tragedy of her husband’s death. But actually, her real feeling inside her heart

was rapidly per beat and turn into warn blood soul. This meaning that her life feels better

and enjoyable of herself without her husband. She’s very calm and came downside with

enjoy of her smile face that she can do anything that she wanted to without following her

husband’s rules. But what she didn’t know is that her husband is still alive and came into

her house. Mrs. Mallard was suddenly disappointed in her heart and she though in her

mind, “Oh Crap?!”. Then she collapse and passed away as result of heart disease.

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