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Comparing The Interlopers And The Story Of An Hour

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While both of the stories, ‘The Interlopers’ and ‘The Story of an Hour’, are very different, they have many things in common. They both contain situational irony. In ‘The Story of an Hour’, it tells us that Mrs. Mallard had heart trouble. When her sister, Josephine, and her husband’s friend, Richards, found out, they tried to break the news to her in broken sentences, slowly alluding to her husband’s death. When Mrs. Mallard realized what they were saying, she cried in her sister’s arms, until the door opened, “Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered.” They all realized she had just died. “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.” Likewise, in
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