“The Story of an Hour” and “The Storm,” by Kate Chopin includes many different literary elements to develop solid themes. “The Story of an Hour” is a short story about a woman named Mrs. Louise Mallard who learns of her husband’s death and finds a sense of joy and freedom upon this discovery. At the end of the story, however, Mrs. Mallard is informed that her husband is not dead which results in her sudden death. “The Storm” is also a short story about a woman named Calixta who encounters a former beau of hers and indulges in an act of infidelity. In “The Story of an Hour”, Chopin uses Mrs. Mallards’ heart condition to foreshadow the end; in “The Storm," she uses the actual storm itself as a form of foreshadow. Chopin specifically uses foreshadow in both of these stories to display the ironic happiness that both protagonists desire. In the first paragraph of “The Story of an Hour," Chopin writes “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 husband’s death”. In this instance of foreshadow, the reader learns what will result in Mrs. Mallard’s death. The news of her husband’s death surprisingly does not startle Mrs. Mallard too badly. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the sames he wept at once in her sister’s arms” (“The Story of an Hour” paragraph 3). Immediately after, she went to her room and sat for a while; but shortly after “a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: ‘free, free, free” (paragraph 11). “Free! Body and soul frees he kept whispering” (paragraph 16). This shows how Mrs. Mallard took the news quite well. She seems to have a sense of joy and freedom from the news of her husband’s death. After Mrs. Mallard expresses her happiness, her sister came to her room to see about her and “there was a f