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Story Of An Hour And The Interlopers: A Comparative Analysis

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Writing up a list of things that two short stories have in common would be easy. Drawing a Venn diagram would be easier yet. Writing an essay, however, is a little more strenuous. Discovering words that make sense compiled in to a sentence can be a challenge. Cutting to the chase instead, the two short stories I will be comparing and contrasting are The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Interlopers by Saki. To propose a few contrasting differences; the stories are both set in different time periods; they were also both written at different times as well. Both stories, however, contain a great deal of irony. The fact that Mrs. Louise in The Story of an Hour presumably dies from a joyful heart attack is irony in its self. Irony is
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