Let me just tear it up right in front of you...

"I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged." (pg 121)

While I was reading through the novel, I really did expect Victor to go through his promise and create the female monster for the creature. I imagined that he would force himself to go through with it due to the repercussions if he failed to do so. However, one thing that I simply never expected him to do was to think twice about what he was doing. After this, I never would have imagined that even if he did think twice, that he would stop working on it due to what might happen to his family and friends. Afer this, I never would have imagined him tearing up the female creature right in front of the creatures eyes. To me, this was just really situationally ironic. However, this happening did make a few deep impacts. For example, it truly revealed how much Victor was against the making of the female creature. Sure he could have secretly disposed of it later. But tearing it up "with passion" truly reveals his emotions at that moment he saw the creature and did not want to create the female version.

Whoa!

One of the last question in the book asking about Your Ugly, Too asks where situational irony is present in the short story. When thinking about it, I remember a time in the story when I was completely taken off guard by something I never expected. This was when Evan told Zoe that the guy she wanted Zoe to meet was a really nice and fun guy that maybe Zoe would like. So when I pictured this guy, I pictured him as being a simple well humored man. However, when we are first introduced to him, his costume is just a fullout naked woman. This is not what I would picture a really nice guy wearing. So when I got this dexription, it gave me a new image of what he really was like. What really made my new image of him more valid was when he told the incredibly vulgar joke. I though it was really funny how that joke was what he thought she was going to tell him. So this situational irony really emphasized what he was really like.

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.