english final essay

In the nineteenth century men had an upper advantage and had male domination against women. Women were seen as the stay at home house wife while the men were out working. The fiction story “A Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and the play “Trifles by Susan Glaspell share similarities and differences throughout their stories. Both stories share literary devices that compare and contrast one another. “A Story of an Hour” and “Trifles” use symbolism and irony as literary devices that show similarity. The theme of Kate Chopin’s and Susan Glaspell’s stories relate to suppressing identity. The main characters of their written work have shown emotional inversion yet find freedom as an end result. The main characters, Mrs. Mallard, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters share a feminist approach by losing their identities due to male domination. These two stories reflect women’s identities and the oppression of women by marriage.
The short story “A Story of an Hour” was written as an omniscient third person narrator. Kate Chopin begins her story with the reader knowing something that Mrs. Mallard does not. The narrator reveals and interprets Mrs. Mallard thoughts as the story foretells. The use of third person expresses the voice of Mrs. Mallard as sympathetic and understanding. If the story was written in first person for example, the story would be told in a completely different view behind the explanation of Mrs. Mallard. When written in third person, the reader gets a visual insight of the place and the events that occur. Also, the reader does not fully grasp the emotions the characters are going through when being read in third person. If the story were written in first person then the reader could have felt emotionally involved more with the character speaking.
During both stories the authors used irony. The irony of “A Story of an Hour” and “Trifles” is based upon the women characters that live a miserable marriage and cannot seem to find happiness within their