An Hour Vs Interloper

When you analyze two great stories, from two famous writers there are bound to be some distinctions and connections between them. You just have to look hard enough. The differences the similarities between The Interlopers and The Story Of An Hour are noticeable and deserve through examination. The main conflict, setting, irony, characters, and deaths are just a few things we could compare and contrast between these two short stories.
A good story always has a main conflict. In The Interlopers, the main conflict is man vs. man. In The Story Of An Hour, the main conflict is man vs. himself or his emotions. Obviously, the two stories have a conflict with man on one side or another. This often happens nowadays. People are constantly in a conflict
In The Story Of An Hour, they mention that Mrs. Mallard had heart troubles. In this context they were talking about actual medical heart troubles. “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death. (Chopin 1)” Her friends were trying not to give her a heart attack by breaking the news to her. But, in The Interlopers, I believe that both the men had a different kind of heart trouble. They had emotional heart troubles and were filled with hate for the other man. This is an example of a difference between the short stories. Another difference between the stories is the setting. In Saki’s story, the setting was a forest. Disputed hunting land to be exact. This made it easy for the author to incorporate nature, the tree branch, in the story. However, in Kate Chopin's story, the setting was in a house. Therefore, it made it more difficult to incorporate the nature, requiring her to add it in a less direct metaphorical way. This shows us the difference in the stories and the
“Are they your men?” he repeated impatiently, as Ulrich did not answer. “No,” said Ulrich with a laugh, the idiotic chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous fear. “Who are they?” asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would gladly not have seen. “Wolves.” (Saki 7)”
Death is only one thing that the two stories have in common. Similarly, both stories have a similar was that they build suspense. In The Interlopers, the build suspense by giving us the backstory and building up the intensity of the storm that they get caught in. In The Story Of An Hour, they build suspense by starting with giving the audience a piece of information that the characters in the story don't even know yet. But, I do think that because the story is shorter, there is less suspense and it all happens kind of fast. If digged hard enough. I am sure that I would find more similarities in the stories.
In conclusion, both stories give us lots of things to study, analyze and talk about. Despite the the large time gap between when the stories were written, we can see common threads and recurring patterns to which the authors use to build suspense and develop their characters, stories, and settings in a way that the reader would