The Ransom Of Red Chief Analysis

Surprise can lead to happiness, or surprise can lead to depression. Situational irony is when somebody expects something to go one way, but it really happens the exact opposite way. Situational irony can also change the reader’s mind in a way they will never believe. In “The Ransom of Red Chief,” O. Henry uses situational irony to amuse the reader. In “The Necklace,” Guy de Maupassant uses a feeling of compassion for the short story. In “The Ransom of Red Chief” and in “The Necklace,” O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant, and any author can use situational irony to affect the reader's emotions.
In “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, there are multiple examples of situational irony that has emotion. One example of situational irony is when Johnny is kidnapped by Bill and Sam, and he is supposed to be scared. Instead, Johnny likes being kidnapped because he does not have to go to

One example of situational irony is when Mathilde Loisel wants to be the richest of the rich, but she ends of being one of the poorest of the poor. The narrator says, “‘She suffered endlessly feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury”(1). She does not only want to be rich, but she knows that she deserves to be richer than the richest. A different example of situational irony is when Mathilde thinks that she wears a really expensive necklace to the party, but it is only worth about 500 francs. Madame Forestier says, ‘“Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs! (8) She realizes that she has been trying to save up for something that was around 500 francs, but she thought that it was really 10,000 francs. When she becomes the poorest of the poor, she wishes that she could have lived her life the way she should of done. This is also one of many examples that an author can use situational irony as