“Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” by Thomas Hardy is a story about a woman that is dead and she suddenly discover someone digging in her grave, Hardy use irony to disappoint the speaker’s expectation because she see that is her dog who is there and thought that he is doing that because he missed her, however the dog simply replies that was just burying a bone in case he was hungry later. The answer is It uses irony to show the woman that she is deeply missed.
The social issue that Kate Chopin primarily depicts in her story "The Story of an Hour" is the inner concerns of ordinary women in the nineteenth century.
