The first thing I noticed while reading “Story of an Hour” was the amount of irony Kate Chopin used throughout the story. This gave me a mixed reaction to her work. At first I didn’t understand her usage of irony and thought that it made the story less somber than I thought it should be, considering the events. The first irony I came across was in the way that Louise reacts when she is …showed first 75 words of 662 total…

…showed last 75 words of 662 total…live for only one hour. The amount of irony in this story made me more able to comprehend the ending and understand it more. Even though I was uncomfortable with the amount of irony at the beginning, I was able to see how Kate Chopin used the irony to make the reader able to understand the ending better, and to be able to see why Louise had reacted in the way she did. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**