Story Of An Hour Situational Irony

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Imagine this, you're forced into a marriage then all of a sudden your husband dies, would you feel happy, sad, confused, how would you feel. In this story a woman named Mrs. Mallard is in this situation after her husband “dies” in a train accident. In this story there were two types of Irony, Situational Irony and Dramatic Irony. The reason I found Situational Irony in this story is because the reader was most likely thinking Mrs. Mallard would be sad after her husband, Mr. Mallard “died” in an accident that just happened an hour ago. Instead of being sad and mournful she gets excited and can’t wait for the years to come without her husband. This Irony was used great in this story setting because the time the author wrote this story was