SOURCE: Berkove, Lawrence L. “Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin's ‘The Story of an Hour.’” American Literary Realism 32, no. 2 (winter 2000): 152-58.
In the following essay, Berkove contends that Chopin's narration of “The Story of an Hour” is ironic rather than straightforward.
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