A few sentences down there is another unique metaphor that struck me was when the narrator said "...when a sob rose in her throat and shook her, as a child who had cried herself to sleep continues to sob in her dream” the narrator compared Mrs. Mallard's sobbing to that of a crying child. One of the themes that I believed was present in this story was love,. which is also shown by how scared Mrs. Mallard was to face the truth about her husband and her life after his death The narrator says, “There was something on her mind and she was waiting for it, with fear .What was it? She didn't know; it was too thin and elusive to name how she began to think about life as a widow and began to fear what she should expect. I believe verbal irony was shown in “The Story of an Hour” because after sitting in the chair in front of the window to think, the narrator tells the readers “As she sat down, a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips . He said it over and over again in an undertone: free, free, free! Screaming "free" is not something you would expect a grieving wife to say after being