‘The Story of an Hour”, written by Kate Chopin, and “The Interlopers”, written by Saki, are two incredibly different short stories with very different story lines. One tells of a young woman, who is slowly dying from heart disease, and the other of two men, who are out for revenge. Even though these stories have such different characters, settings, and story lines, they contain the same literary devices of irony and foreshadowing. The main characters, setting, and story line of these two stories can’t be more opposite than they are. “The Story of an Hour” is about Mrs. Louise Mallard, who is suffering from heart trouble, and takes place in her home during the spring season. She’s told her husband, Brently, died in a railroad accident. She’s upset for a short period of time, but soon decides she will be …show more content…
In both books the main characters make plans for their futures, which are then cut short by their untimely and unexpected deaths. In “The Interlopers” Georg tells Ulrich “you would come and keep the Sylvester night beneath my roof, and I would come and feast on some high day at your castle” (Saki), and tell of other ways they may show peace and become friends. He also says that “if we choose to make peace …there is none other who could interfere, no interlopers from the outside” (Saki). However, there are interlopers, the wolves, and they cut the story short, much to the surprise of the audience. In “The Story of an Hour”, Mrs. Mallard says she will be sad for her because of her husband’s funeral, “but she saw beyond hat bitter moment” (Chopin). She looked to the future and said that “there would be no one to live for…[but] she would live for herself” (Chopin). She looks forward to this idea. The idea of living for herself. She makes it her one purpose in life, and is then broken hearted when her husband walks into the door. She dies of the shock and of “the joy that kills”