Write a 4 paragraph essay explaining how irony helps develop the theme of “The Story of an Hour” “The Necklace” and “The Gift of Magi”. Make sure to use two or more examples of from memory (NO QUOTES) from each story and at least two sentences of commentary for each example.
“The necklace” is by Guy De Maupassant
“The story of an hour” is by Kate Chopin
“The gift of magi” is by O.Henry
Also you can use situational, dramatic, cosmic irony. And the theme has to be a full stateme
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In his story “The Necklace,” Guy De Maupassant depicts a beautiful woman who feels deprived of a lavish life because she was born in a family of clerks and could not marry a rich man. The Irony is that she thinks that she has fallen from her rightful social status, yet she has never belonged to the rich’s social class. Mathilde Louise is vain, yet her vanity only seems to cause her misery. She has servants to do her housework, and she feels regret instead of joy. Ironically, by all appearances, her life is good. There was a dramatic turn of occasions when she borrows a diamond necklace for a soiree and loses it. Her desperate attempts to replace the chain
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