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 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 thrill. Though significantly different in focus theses story lines seem to be, both Chopin’s and Wolff’s short stories communicate their ideas through the dynamic of their characters, third person omniscient point of view, and the perception of death.
Mrs. Mallard, the epitome of youth and beauty, has a heart condition, a warning of a complication for the foreseeable future
When Mr. Mallard, the person we believed to be dead is truly alive, and the assumed “widow” is the one who dies, completely an ironic reversal of fortuity in a short-lived moment. At the end of the story the doctors misinterpreted the source of Mrs. Mallard’s shock of the sight of her husband as happiness for his safe return that her heart gave out.
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Mrs. Mallard is trapped in a single house in which she feels unsatisfied with her lack of productivity that is the reality of her life. Mr. Mallard is thoughtless towards his wife is downright disgusting. He exploits her health in his favor in order to keep her from further harming her heart. She was not allowed to go outside because her husband thinks of her as fragile. Breaking the news of her husband’s death must be dealt with delicately as possible in order to avoid heart