The Story Of An Hour And Eveline Analysis - 1817 Words

Kate Choplin’s â€Å"The Story of an Hour† and James Joyce’s â€Å"Eveline† are two short stories that have an unpredicted storyline to it. Everyone doesn’t quite enjoy reading short stories in literature, but in the short story â€Å"The Story of an Hour† Kate Choplin makes a very subtle but strong statement towards women’s rights. In the short â€Å"Eveline† James Joyce is about living your life in a promise. Choplin uses different symbols within the story to represent freedom, the existence of self-assertive, and self-reliance. Within â€Å"Eveline† Joyce uses themes such as paralysis, epiphany, and stream of consciousness. Looking at the overview of irony, tone, personification, and setting in â€Å"The Story of an Hour† and â€Å"Eveline,† readers are able to see the†¦show more content†¦The other use of irony that is being used in â€Å"The Story of an Hour† is dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is commonly used to clue the audience in something that is happening that the characters in the story do not know about at the moment. This happens when Louise realizes that she has become free from her husband. While sitting in the room by her lonesome, she accomplished a disclosure that she was no longer bound to her husband Mr. Mallard. But no one else in the story such as her sister knew that she had realized that. Everyone in the story thought that Louise was sad and depressed and thought that was the reason to why she went to her room. That was the last thing that they would expect. In contrast, there is not much irony used in â€Å"Eveline† as in â€Å"The Story of an Hour†. In â€Å"Eveline† the irony comes into play when it is expected that Eveline will leave behind her responsibilities and family to start a new life and be with Frank, but instead she decides to stay back home. Eveline had a chance to leave with Frank and start a new life, but instead she decides to stay home with her father. Even though her father was abusive, she had made a promise to her mother before she died that she would dedicate herself to maintaining the home and the family. She talked about how her life was dedicated to cleaning, cooking, shopping, and taking care ofShow MoreRelatedChange: The Seed of Evolution2514 Words   |  11 Pagesdestitute/middle-class family. After his graduation from the University College, he moved to Paris to study medicine only to be called back to Dublin to care for his mother during her last days (O’Conner). He remained in his home country for a year, publishing short stories in â€Å"The Irish Homestead† newspaper (O’Conner). Joyce was a failure at many different occupations: teaching, journalism, and accounting; however, he is one of the few authors to have known success in his own lifetime (Bulson 17). Living in the 1910s