There are three types of irony-- Verbal, Dramatic, and Situational. Verbal is a discrepancy between what’s said and what’s meant, dramatic is when the audience knows more than the characters do, and situational is when the opposite of what’s expected happens. Two of the three were used mostly in the novel. • Towards the end of the story, Tom’s mistress, Myrtle is hit and killed by Gatsby’s car, so Tom automatically assumes that Gatsby was the one who did it. However, Daisy was the one driving, but he doesn’t know that. • When Tom sees the wreck, he jokingly tells George, Myrtles husband who owns a repair shop that he’ll finally have business. Then he realizes later that the person hit was his mistress. • Throughout the story you could tell