Friday, August 19, 2011

In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"... (even if you havent read it all, you may be able to answer)?

Pardon the pun, but it would be overkill. The woman dies, for heaven's sake -- can you figure out how she felt? I can. The lovely irony is that the doctor ascribes her death to joy, her joyous amazement that her husband is alive. Ha! There's much more punch in that irony precisely because you haven't had it spelled out for you how she felt in that moment. You know in your gut how she feels.

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