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 and Ruby's neighbor, Laverne Watts, was an early rendition of "Wisebloods" Leora Watts. The story was first published as "The Woman on the Stairs" in the August 1949 issue of "Tomorrow", and was later published as "A Stroke of Good Fortune" in the spring 1953 issue of "Shenandoah". By 1955 O'Connor had revised it so as to include it in the short story collection "A Good Man is Hard to Find". John McDermott notes that "A Stroke of Good Fortune" has been "dismissed by most critics as one of the least effective of Flannery O'Connor's short stories." O'Connor herself found