Story Of The Hour And The Interlopers

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The Story of the Hour and The Interlopers are two short stories, to which the main character do not live to see a happy ending. Right when they thought they thought they had reached a point oh having everything they ever wanted tragedy struck and took it all away from them. The three characters were about to have everything, freedom, friendship, but it was torn away from them like a bandaid off of flesh.

Mrs. Mallard from The Story of the Hour had been told that her husband had died in a train accident, giving her a sense of freedom. Ulrich Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym were the two men in The Interlopers, their families were in a feud over a piece of land that rightfully belonged to the Gradwitz family. One night the two men were out in the woods and they ran into each other and drew their weapons. They could have killed one another right then and there in cold blood, before they got the chance a strong wind blew and knocked over a tree. The tree landed on the two men, they were not able to move. …show more content…
She thought about all the things she could do now that she was a free woman, all the days that were hers to live anyway she pleazed. The two men however were terrified they did not know who's men would find them first or who would die and who would walk away. They laid there filling the air with threats to kill one another if they were to be found. After some time had passed Ulrich began to feel bad for they way they had been treating each other and asked Georg for his forgiveness. The men made amends feeling awful for they way they had treated one another for so

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