Comparing Story Of An Hour And Bullet In The Brain By Tobias Wolff

In her 1894 short story, “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin at the mists of Women’s Rights. Louise Mallard, the female protagonist, heard the news that her husband, Brentley Mallard, was killed due to a freak accident at the railroad. Whereas in his 1995 short story, “Bullet in the Brain,” Tobias Wolff is a suspenseful thriller with its male protagonist, Anders, an obnoxious book critic who is held up at the bank by armed robbers. These two short stories happen in quick succession that it fast enough to read but just be as impactful as any other literature. The setting, plot, irony conveyed different situations in order to understand the humanity of a character. Though significantly different in focus theses storylines seem to be, both Chopin’s

"Hey! Bright boy! Did I tell you talk?... No, Anders said…Then shut your trap… Did you hear that? Anders said. Bright boy.' Right out of 'The Killers'." Anders is forced to look up and his active imagination and attention to detail of the bank’s ceiling artistry began tipping the scale against his favor of survival. “He stuck the pistol under Anders' chin and pushed it upward until Anders was looking at the ceiling… was crowded with… a bull ogling a cow from behind a haystack. To make the cow sexy, the painter had canted her hips suggestively… gazed back at the bull with sultry welcome. The bull wore a smirk and his eyebrows were arched. If there'd been a bubble coming out of his mouth, it would have said, "Hubba hubba." As an infamous critic he saw right through the personification the artists did on the sexually suggestive cow. The robber that Anders interacted had enough of his childless games “You're history. Capiche? Anders burst out laughing. He… then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, Capiche - oh, God, capiche, and at that the man with the pistol raised the pistol and shot Anders right in the head.” Anders knew he was in danger but the critic in him won out by mocking the man who’s holding a handgun with sarcasm, he tempted fate long enough that he got shot in the head that will

In “Bullet in the Brain” the narrator knows the memories that Anders had experienced in his lifetime in which Anders consciousness has not chosen for his last moment. “It is worth noting what Anders did not remember, given what he did remember.” Tobias Wolff, treats Anders, who does not care of what people though of him and judges them, poorly in his adulthood, but he gives us a childhood memory that humanizes him through his narration:
“Shortstop,” the boy says. "Short's the best position they are." Anders turns and looks at him. He wants to hear Coyle's cousin repeat what he's just said, but he knows better than to ask. The others will think he's being a jerk, ragging the kid for his grammar. But that isn't it, not at all - it's that Anders is strangely roused, elated, by those final two words, their pure unexpectedness and their music. He takes the field in a trance, repeating them to