Brently 's death in the train accident by reading telegrams sent to the news . Making the telegram the quickest form of communication used during this time . Common use of both the telegraph , and the train dates the setting of the story to the 1890s . The single most dynamic quality of this short fiction is the size of it . ``The Story of an Hour ' is extremely concise - just over 1000 words . Chopin offers her readers a single snapshot of a typical...











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