what was the irony of "the story of an hour"?

Question

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Answer 1

story of an hr by kate chopin

mrs. mallard has heart disease, but when she learned of her husbands death, instead of being sad, she actually became happy because now she has freedom. but when her husband shows up alive, she dies. there are two ways to interpret the death of mrs mallard. the obvious one is that she died from the joy of seeing her husband. but the less obvious one, which is the ironic one is that she died because now that her husband is alive, she will have no more freedom.

Answer 2

If you are referring to The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin. There is a movie that might help you, you might find it at your library. " The Joy that Kills" is a 56-minute production produced by Tina Rathbone with many interpretive additions and feminist overtones. In this production Louise is presented as an invalid, envious of her husband's freedom.

Answer 3

I hate to help you on your homework, but my students struggle with this one too. I think it's hard to say that Mrs. Mallard died of joy in seeing her husband, particularly because everyone else states it so affirmatively, yet none of them were in the room alone with her (as the readers were) when we witnessed her creeping sense of joy and freedom when she thought her husband dead. I would say to your first respondent then, that the stronger argument is the second of his/her two options - the ironic situation that Mrs. Mallard died because the freedom she had just allowed herself to feel has been yanked away from her.

Answer 4

Considering Chopin's novel The Awakening, the woman dies because she is no longer free to be herself.

Therefore, the irony is that she his happy about her husband's death, and she dies as a result of his living.

Most would be sad about a death, and joyful about survival.