Irony make the truth of past situations obvious to all. Other prominent examples of outcomes now seen as poignantly contrary to expectation include: Irony is often used in literature to produce a comic effect. This may also be combined with satire. For instance, an author may facetiously state something as a well-known fact and then demonstrate through the narrative that the fact is untrue. Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" begins with the proposition "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." In fact, it soon becomes
A Stroke of Good Fortune to the fact that everyone else in the building knows. Whitt called the story "a collection of obvious life signs placed in a context of death images". She points to phallic symbols like the pistol Ruby sits on, and the fact that Hartley Gilfeet is from Rodman. She also points out references to menstruation. The flights of stairs in Ruby's apartment, for example, each contain 28 steps. Ruby, in contrast, is described as a funeral urn. A Stroke of Good Fortune "A Stroke of Good Fortune" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of