Where do we place the tragedy in Kate Chopin's short story? Is it in the protagonist's failure to escape or her failure to believe she can?

Where do we place the tragedy in Kate Chopin's short story? Is it in the protagonist's failure to escape or her failure to believe she can?

An introduction or review to the concept of irony in literature, helpful to those who want to better understand the "twist" ending to the story.

A supplemental episode, a reading of Chopin's short story. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully."

Join me, Steve Chisnell, as we find and lose meaning across modern and classic tales, through ancient and distant verse, atop everything in our many cultures which might be read.