The Interlopers Short Story

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Have you ever had to find something you had in common with someone but, no matter how hard you tried, could not find anything? That is how I felt when reading the short stories, "The Interlopers" and "The Story of an Hour." I did see that both stories show the importance of companionship and who you spend your life with or without. But the similarities stop there. Though I could not find any connection between these stories, I could find a plethora of differences. Which I will tell you so you can more understand the anomalies of these two very famous tales. The first difference I saw was that while ""The Interlopers" is about two enemies becoming friends and realizing that they will be happier together, "The Story of an Hour" is about a woman…show more content…
This makes sense because Georg and Ulrich both have guns and trying to kill each other. In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game for whose presence he kept so keen an outlook was none that figured in the sportsman’s calendar as lawful and proper for the chase; Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy. (Saki,1) The part of "The Story of an Hour" that shows it has an internal conflict is when she is by herself in her room. You can’t really have an external conflict, man versus man or man versus nature, if you are in a room all by yourself. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.…show more content…
“When my men come to release us you will wish, perhaps, that you were in a better plight than caught poaching on a neighbor’s land, shame on you.” Georg was silent for a moment; then he answered quietly: “Are you sure that your men will find much to release? I have men, too, in the forest to-night, close behind me, and THEY will be here first and do the releasing. (Saki,3) In "The Story of an Hour,” the suspense builds when Louise is trying to figure out what she is feeling. She doesn’t know what it is, joy or heartbreak, but then she decides if she should embrace or not. There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air. Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. (Chopin,2) She is battling her emotions but ultimately decides to just go with it. She feels that she can be happy and carefree now that she is not held back by another. But also sad because her significant other also progressed her in some
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