The Story of an Hour
Examples of irony in The Story of an Hour?
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Situational Irony
"She saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome"
"Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one."
Dramatic Irony
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.
The Story of an Hour