Question: In what way does the doctor's pronouncement on the cause of Mrs. Mallard's death ironic?

It is likely to take Chopin's article and it's symbolism one step farther and claim that Chopin hunts for to delineate and restructure the patriarchy by toppling the man's pedestal place and, in turn, increasing woman to a place even higher than that of the man.  For demonstration, Chopin's use of irony at the end of the article lives on two levels.  First, there is the irony that Mrs. Mallard past away of frightening just when she envisioned and designed out a new, prosperous, unaligned life.  ...