Literary Devices

• Setting- hour at the Mallard's home
• women are always inside the Mallards' house, while the men can come and go as they please- confined to the house because of her disease
• there's more than one floor, because there's a staircase inside; the internal doors have locks; and Mrs. Mallard has her own room. In that room, there's "a comfortable, roomy armchair"
• Locks herself in her room when she learns of her husband’s death
• Think outside world if more dangerous cause Mr. Mallard supposedly died there, but in reality it may be safer because he didn’t die outside, whereas Mrs. Mallard died inside

Different Forms of Irony

• Situational irony- Mr. Mallard lives and Mrs. Mallard dies
• Dramatic irony- Mrs. Mallard dies from the shock of seeing her husband. Everyone thinks she dies from joy, when in fact she dies from just the opposite