The three types of irony are situational, verbal, and dramatic, and The Story of an Hour has all three types of irony flowing through it
Situational irony occurs when the actual result of a situation is totally different from what you’d expect the result to be. And in the story of an hour it happen a few times like when Ms. mallard wasn’t actually sad about her husbands death the fact that she was excited is a perfect example of situational irony. Instead of be sad she “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. In other words she was going to her room to show that she was happy in private The majority of times when surroundings are described in stories after bad news, everything looks dark and gloomy because of the sadness that the character must be feeling. However, the surroundings Mrs. Mallard experiences are anything but dark and gloomy. The world was described as ”warm and friendly”x. She could hear someone singing and the birds twittering. Mr. Mallard lives and Mrs. Mallard dies.
Verbal irony occurs when a speaker’s intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying. In this situation Mrs. Mallard never fell into depression just like the doctor said once her husband died. Mrs. Mallard’s sister though she was having health problems once she found out that her husband was dead, but in reality all she felt was freedom.“She it multiple times under her breath free free free. The means that it was Mrs. Mallard’s joy that “killed” her, just not the joy the doctors think: what really killed the protagonist was experiencing the joy of knowing that she would be free for the remainder of her life and then having that joy taken away.
Dramatic irony is also used in Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” through Mrs. Mallard’s realization that she is free from her husband and with her death. During the time Mrs. Mallard spent alone in her room, she experienced a revelation that she no longer would be bound to her husband. However, no one else in the story knew of this realization. They all believed that she was extremely depressed, and that was the reason she had gone to her room. Josephine even thought that Mrs. Mallard was making herself sick. She’s actually in there contemplating how wonderful her life’s going to be. That’s both situational and dramatic irony. My proof from the story that she was unhappy with her relationship comes from the story pg. 2 “And yet she had loved him.. Sometimes often she had not”. Also after that Kate Chopin stated that she wasn’t making herself ill ” No she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window”
Other ways to understand she wasn’t sad about her husbands death the symbolizing of spring days in other words spring days are equal to renewal rebirth and new fertile