Whoa! That came out of nowhere...

Throughout the short story "How I met my husband", Edie seems to have something going on with the pilot who comes to her part of the country to fly people in his plane. In the beginning of the story, it is not certain whether or not the two have a "thing" going on. But this is made certain towards the end when the pilot "sat beside [her] and started thosse little kisses, so soft..." This is what the majority of the story leads up to, and because of this and the title, the reader would expect that Edie and the pilot end up being together by the end of the story. Even on the final page of the story, she is still waiting for the pilot's letter to come in the mail. However, it is not until the last paragraph that the reader finds out that she ends up the mailman from whom she was waiting for to deliver the letter to her. So this is the situational irony of the story, because the reader would not expect the author to have Edie end up marrying the mailman when almost the whole story consisted of her and the pilot. This seemingly abrupt ending really puts the cap on the situational irony and leaves the reader almost dumbfounded at how it ended...or else that is how I was left at the end.