¶ … Fictional Elements in Selected Works from Kate Chopin and Anton Chekhov
In both of Kate Chopin's works, "The Story of an Hour" and "Desiree's Baby," the most important element of fiction which the author invokes is plot and conflict, for the simple fact that this element is the most effective way of imparting the powerful irony which grips both of these tales. "The Story of an Hour" in particular is too brief to provide a significant level of characterization or setting, yet it's brevity actually helps to accentuate the irony of a work in which the principle protagonist, Mrs. Mallard, believes that she has escaped the overbearing will and presence of her husband and reaffirms her devotion to live -- only to die suddenly at the unexpected presence of the latter at the story's conclusion. Chopin utilizes such a plot to emphasize the situation irony with which her tale is based on; once Mrs. Mallard has determined that she will be able to live, her remaining years unrestrained without her husband (who she was told has been killed), the exact opposite of what one would anticipate happening to her does -- she dies when she sees her husband is very much alive.
The apex of the irony which fuels the plot of "The Story of an Hour" is best illustrated in its final sentence. The author had previously informed the reader that Mrs. Mallard had a heart affliction, which was why the news of her husband's purported "death" was given to her as gently as possible. Yet her own death is justified with a brilliant paradox that indicates just how ironic and far-from-anticipated such an outcome is. "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease -- of the joy that kills."
The irony that powers this conflicting statement (after all, it is typically pain, not joy that kills) can be seen on multiple levels. The joy referred to is probably that which the doctors and the characters in the story perceived to be Mrs. Mallard's joy at seeing her husband alive. However, it was the shock that Mrs. Mallard experienced at seeing her husband, and the swift retraction of the freedom...
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