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Irony of “The Story of and Hour” and “Desiree’s Baby” In the two stories that Kate Chopin wrote, “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree’s Baby”, she uses irony though much of both stories. And the way she uses irony in both of these stories are quite similar. They both end up with the same tragic result of a woman dying in their seemingly male dominated world. In the short story “The Story …

…seeing her husband standing in the door kills her knowing she will never be able to live that life. And in “Desiree’s Baby,” Armand discovers that he is the carrier of the black gene that causes their baby to be of a mixed race. But it was too late because his wife and child had already left and died. Both stories have a surprise ending that leave the readers in a state of disbelief.