Author Question: Some storiesfor instance, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridgearenoted for their surprise endings. How ... (Read 62 times)

hbsimmons88 · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Some storiesfor instance, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridgearenoted for their surprise endings. How can it be claimed that The Story of an Hour has a triple surprise ending?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Is Mrs. Mallards sorrow at the news of her husbands death merely feigned?Try to account for her sudden changes of feeling.

What will be an ideal response?

parker125 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Surprise ending l: Mrs. Mallard realizes that her husbands death has left her unexpectedly happy. Surprise ending 2: Her husband is still alive. Surprise ending 3: She dies herself. The Story of an Hour has been criticized for having a rigged ending that strikes some readers as a cheap trick. But the convention is used here not merely for its shock value but also to illuminate Mrs.

Mallards repressed resentment against her husband.

Answer to Question 2

Undoubtedly her grief is sincere. Caught within a conventional marriage, she has not realized the freedom she has been denied. Notice that her rush of new joy, her looking forward to a whole new life, begins when she observes that spring is bursting forth, too, in the natural world.