Outlived # The entire story shows Louise’s usual behavior and produces the necessary effect on the reader. And even that fact that she always repeated to her husband that she wouldn’t live long and the fact that she “outlived” both of them produces an ironic effect. For example, “She had too much delicacy ever to make a direct statement, but with a hint and a sigh and a little flutter of her beautiful hands she was able to make her meaning plain”. - See more at: http://ardhendude.blogspot.com/2014/08/interpretation-from-louise-by-w.html#sthash.htuajMlF.dpuf