"The Story of an Hour"

In the story, "The Story of an Hour", by Kate Chopin, there is a lot of irony. A recent wife was told she lost her husband. The woman was thought to be very depressed but in reality she was relieved and almost joyed. At that time the woman was having almost the happiest days of her life. When the doctors told the wife it was a mistake and her husband is really alive, the wife got very upset and died of a heart attack. The ironic thing is that the doctors and other people believed the woman died of joy with the good news. This is also very ironic because the death of any family always brings out feelings of deprecation. This story has a little bit of feminism behind the words of the story.  When males are superior to females then it is considered feminism. The woman was very excited to be free since her husband supposedly died.  This shows that her husband ruled over her and was the dominating and superior figure in the relationship.  Since the male figure ruled over the female figure then this story can be considered feminist.