2014 Uses of Irony in “The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” is about a woman who has a heart condition. She then hears and believes that her husband has just dies in a train wreck. She starts to imagine a new life for herself where she is free. All of her imagination comes to halt when she sees her husband at the door and dies. Chopin describes this short story with three types irony, situational, verbal, and dramatic. The first type of irony Chopin uses is situational;
Kate Chopin is well-known writer from the late nineteenth century. She is famous for her novel The Awakening (1899) as well as many short stories, usually written in the setting of the American South, Louisiana region, noticed by her use of dialects. Her works are written in a poetic manner, mainly with a focus on women in her day and the woman in her story’s search for identity and independence. As Chopin was widowed in her early thirties, she raised six children alone, as well as ran her late-husband’s