The Story Of An Hour And The Interlopers

Short stories can be romantic, scary, sad, or enlightening and uplifting. No matter what the theme of stories are, they always have special meaning to people, in the same manner as poems. In this essay I will be comparing two short stories, called The Story of An Hour, and The Interlopers. Both stories share similar afflictions to the characters, even though both stories, however, are completely different. Both short stories are very unique, interesting and also go through similar conflict and issues that lead to death and grief in the character’s lives, which completes the stories, leaving you wanting more.

The Story of An Hour is about a woman who is positively and emotionally moved when she overcomes the heart breaking news of her husband’s
This story was written by Saki, a man who wrote a frightening story called The Interlopers. Ulrich Von Gradwitz, stood in a dark forest on a winter night, waiting for a human enemy to come into his presence. He was waiting for his lifelong enemy, Georg Znaeym, whose families have fought for three generations and has never settled ever since. Georg and Ulrich wanted a narrow strip of forest that was filled with wild game that both men quarreled over, after their grandparents had been through the same issues with each other. “as boys they thirsted for one another’s blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other,”. The story states they have been in fury with each other very since they were young, and that ill will for each other was definitely in their
Foreshadowing was used multiple times as a way of “ shadowing” important and useful information to the stories’ meanings and events. We can see that they include family issues and problems that can ruin friendships and families lives, and death plays a big role in how the stories end, as well. The first story shows conflict between a man and a woman, through marriage, but on the other hand, the second story is between two men and their generations before them. This dramatically changes how the stories are written because of the characters that are afflicted. The main characters in The Interlopers have anger and hatred to each other, however, The Story of An Hour has heartbreak that eventually leads to grief for the loved ones affected by