In the short stories, Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and Samuel by Grace Paley,
             there were several similarities such as each story was written the way the author viewed
             their society during the time period in which they lived and each story had a tragic ending
             There were also several obvious differences such as the themes and the morals of each
             The first similarity was the way the authors wrote the story as they viewed their
             society during their time period. For example, in Kate Chopin's Story of an Hour written
             in 1894, they say that men (before the women's movement) were in control and had the
             say so over what went on in the household. When Mrs. Mallard finds herself alone after
             the death of her husband, she is seen as free from the powerful will of her husband.
             In Grace Paley's Samuel, her main subject "is the life of little people struggling in the
             Big City." Which she portrays in Samuel, four young boys by the name of Alfred,
             Calvin, Samuel and Tom acting like wild animals during a train ride in Bronx, New York.
             Another similarity is that both stories had tragic endings. In Story of an Hour, there was
             an ironic tragedy. It is clarified at the beginning of the story that Mrs. Mallard has a heart
             disease. When she hears of her husband's death it brings her grief and sudden joy,
             because she has been freed from her husband's control. But, ironically her new life is
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             soon cut short after she sees her husband is alive. She ends up being freed from
             oppression in the end. In Samuel, as the boys continue their misconduct while riding in
             the train, one man decides to take a stand out of anger, walks over and pulls the
             emergency cord only to scare the boys so they would
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