The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

The one thing that stands out the most in this story is the irony involve. At first the author Kate Chopin starts us up with a tragedy, the death of Mr. Mallard or thats what we all think. Then she kind of makes us feel sorry for Mrs. Mallard who suffers from heart problems and then this news about her husband being dead could kill her, at first it seems like she is really suffering and that the pain is going to get the best of her, but is not until she goes up to her room that we find out how she really feels. Mrs. Mallard was not in pain because of her husband death is the other way around she was happy. she felt such joy because she was free from him, from commitment and from the live she was living. Now she was free to do whatever she wanted to, life was different now. It wasn't going to be the long and depressing life she had imagine, now life was full of freedom and she had all the time in the world to enjoy it, or so she thought. Once she finally got out of her room and began walking down the stairs Mrs. Mallard, her sister Josephine and Richard who were there to help her ease the pain, they all heard the door. At the door there was Mr. Mallard alive, not death how everyone thought he was, he was very far away from the accident, and this news seeing him there alive was what really kill Mrs. Mallard.