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A 5 page paper which discusses
similarities in Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," James Joyce's "Araby," and the film
"Casino." The similarity focused upon is that which illustrates the realization of a truth,
often a painfully accepted truth. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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realization. These elements of surprise, or epiphanies, often serve to alter the characters lives in one way or another. Sometimes that change is part of growth, and sometimes it is
destructively overpowering, causing permanent damage in a character. In Kate Chopins "Story of an Hour," James Joyces "Araby," and the film "Casino" we see varying conditions which present the reader,
and the characters, with some sort of surprise or some epiphany. In the following paper we examine each story separately and then discuss their similarities. Story of an
Hour In the very beginning of this story we understand that Mrs. Mallards husband is dead: "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken
to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin p. NA). The characters slowly approach her, planning how to tell her of her husbands
death. Mrs. Mallard, however, is not completely devastated by the news, as they thought she would be: "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same,
with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went
away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her" (Chopin p. NA). She retires to a room upstairs and begins contemplating the truth of the death.
She sits, quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is free. She begins reveling in the fact
that although she loved her husband, "sometimes," she was now free to live the remainder of her years for herself alone. She thought: "Her fancy was running riot along those
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