Story Of An Hour Situational Irony Analysis

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Irony is found in many literature pieces; often known as creative literature. Irony is the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. Sometimes used to twist and enhance or give vividness to the plot of a short story. In the short story “The story of an Hour” irony is used to expand the main theme; the author Kathe Chopin utilizes creative literature such as situational irony, as well as, dramatic irony. Chopin’s short story consists of many examples of situational irony. Situational irony is when the situations do not ends as it was expected. The first example of situational irony is at the very beginning. “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble” (Chopin.parah.1) the author makes the reader focus in the different possibilities, for example what she really meant in this sentence is that she was not happy and did not love her husband, not that she was sick. The second example takes when the author implies that the recently widowed women did not react as most of women react. “With a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms.” (Parah.3), Instead she accepted the …show more content…
By analyzing the examples of situational irony we can start to have a better understanding of the short story. “Free,Free,Free!” (Parah.11), Situational irony is mostly used to explain how Mrs. Mallard is not sad, but happy because of her husband’s death. This type of irony also explains how she is happy of her freedom. “And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not.” Is another example of situational irony; the author reveals all her secret feelings and repressed emotions. Moreover, Mr. Mallard is dead…but he is not, he appears at the end of the short story creating another example of situational
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