The aspirations and expectations of freedom can lead to both overwhelming revelations and melancholy destruction. In Kate Chopin’s “ The Story of an Hour” Louise Mallard is stricken with the news of her husband’s “death” and soon lead to new found glory of her freedom and then complete catastrophe in the death of herself. Chopin’s use of irony and the fluctuation in tone present the idea that freedom can be given or taken …showed first 75 words of 523 total…

…showed last 75 words of 523 total…that kills” which ironically again as she slips into death, although not anticipated, her “real” freedom is now discovered.This use of irony leads to believe that freedom is a valuable entity of its own, and without it,life is superficial. The ambitions and revelations set by Mrs. Mallard soon lead to her destruction and eventually her “new” freedom. Liberty is a momentous entity and without it, as in Mrs. Mallard, life amounts to annihilation.