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 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 the ten stories included in her short story collection "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", published in 1955. The story involves a woman who discovers to her disappointment and disbelief that she is pregnant. The story begins as Ruby Hill, a woman who has lately been suffering from minor illness, enters the door of her apartment building after shopping at the grocery store. Ruby begins to work her way up the stairs to her apartment,