Comparing and Contrasting “The Story of an Hour” and “How I Met My Husband”. Lora Cruse Ashford University ENG125 11/20/2014
In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two great short stories. One being “The Story of
an Hour” written by Kate Chopin in 1854 and the other being “How I Met my Husband” written by
Alice Munro in 1974. The two short stories share the theme of gender roles/marriage. That being said,,
I will be going over plot, point of view and tone. Sometimes women feel like they are
trapped in their marriage, and sometimes women cannot wait to become married.
Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour represents a negative view of marriage. Every
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The fact that she dies at the end of a simple heart disease
shows that her misery stem from internally oppose to external emotions, The freedom that she nearly
could've tasted was gone. “For one climactic hour of her life, Louise does truly taste joy. For one hour
of emotion, Louise does glimpse meaning and fulfillment.” (Jamil,2009).
The story “How I Met my Husband” is about a young girl named Edie who is hired help for Dr.
Peebles and his family. One afternoon, while the family is away in town, she meets Chris Watters, a
pilot who travels from town to town giving rides in his plane for a fee. Edie falls in love with him but
soon learns that he is engaged to another woman, Alice Kelling. Alice is crazy and has been following
Chris everywhere in hopes of sex. One day while Alice, Mrs. Peebles, and the children were away on a
picnic, Edie goes to Chris's campsite to talk to him. He reveals to her his plans on leaving, but
promises to write her. They kiss and he leaves town. When the other women are told by the local
gossip, Loretta Bird that Chris has left, Alice Kelling verbally abuses Edie under the mistaken
impression that Edie and Chris had sex. Mrs. Peebles protects Edie and Alice leaves too. Edie waits
day after day at the mailbox for Chris's letter, which never comes. Eventually, Edie realizes Chris will
never write and marries the mailman, who believes that she waited by the
After a week and a half, the water in the town is cleared out, and everyone returns to Everglades, Florida. Tea Cakes and Janie’s friends and neighbours wonder why they still have not returned to their home. Janie's best friend, Pheoby is worried for the couple, so she searches for them. Pheoby goes around all of Everglades and to the area where everyone went before the hurricane hit. Eventually, Pheoby believes that she has done a lot of searching for one day, so she returns home. When she gets home, she turns on the television and flips through channels and comes across the news channel. On the news channel, she sees things that took place after the hurricane. Pheoby continues to watch the news and eventually, the rescue team previews while
beginning of the story starts with Tish going to visit her significant other, Alonzo Hunt, who also
Richard Rodriguez and Amy Tan are two bilingual writers. Rodriguez comes from a Latin background where both his parents speak Spanish. Tan is a child of Chinese parents. Though they share some of the same situations; each has a different way of portraying it. This gives the readers two different aspects of being bilingual. Rodriguez told his story in Aria: a Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. Tan told hers in Mother Tongue. In spite of the fact that they both wrote about their experiences of being bilingual, they told their stories were for very different reasons.
When O decides to go, she questions him on why he would leave her more a
The doorbell rings and Abby gets the door and it’s Jax. He asks why he wasn’t invited to the party. Abby explains why and then he said that Abby cheated.
“Why are you leaving me..?! Please, Chris!” My mom yelled from the office, while I sat on the couch watching TV. The rest of the conversation was inaudible for me to hear, until I heard a loud scream and something being cracked.
The two short stories The Story of An Hour, written by Kate Chopin and The Interlopers, by Saki, are both remarkably interesting, and thought provoking.
Chris realizes that both Scarlette and Diane are working together to gain higher ratings. They want to ruin Abelli, who Scarlette blames for the death of father. Her father was killed on assignment.
Chris will have much difficulty accepting this and doesn't tell Billie of the call, but grows distant and cold, and Billie gets the idea to go undercover using her considerable charms to get close to the writer, Charles and find out what she can on Chris's behalf, despite his icy
He then tells Edie that he will write her a letter to let her know where he is going next, so Edie waits day after day for her letter. While she is waiting for the
Chris has a selective group of friends that he really enjoys himself with. When one of
I turned from putting the tray of ice back and saw a man watching me through the screen door. It was the luckiest thing in the world I didn’t spill the ginger ale down the front of me then and there” (Clugston, 2010). Munro shows the suspense in this scene by showing that Edie was scared when she turned and saw a man standing at the door. From the point of view of a grown woman, no longer pretty as in her youth, or as slender as she once was. Edie looks back on her life to give it meaning. Instead of having bad feelings toward Chris for not writing to her, she remembers what was wonderful in knowing Chris: his compliments, his warm kisses, and his kindness, she does not blame him because she waited for his letters.
And then the story unfold at Alice’s office where she is shown along with her BFF and business partner Val, who is trying to convince Alice to try out wedding cakes and it is revealed that our spunky
On the way to Pete’s Liam and his mom start talking about how much fun she had with Pete and his friends. They soon arrive at
Nick, Tanner, Go, Boney, and Desi’s mother try to prove Amy was lying the whole