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Kate Chopin’s “” perceives this seemingly normal middle-class family with an extensive amount of colorful irony. Louise Mallard is a housewife who tries to lead the most standard life possible with her all-powerful husband.The many years of marriage has brought the feeling of emptiness and vacancy into th ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... her “job” as the wife by storming into tears and weeping in her sister’s arms. She felt no horror or shock, just grief that this person, this “friend”, had passed away. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”(12) The irony had finally creeped through into her life, her inexplicable and “sometimes ....