“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. “By Robert A. Heinlein”. As many know in these short stories they all are ending in people disappearing. This idea of disappearing is set in all three short stories: in Sherman Alexie short story “Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Says Jimi Hendrix Play” The Star-Spangled Banner” At Woodstock”, In “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’Connor”, And in “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” Gabriel Garcia Marquez”. Although the three short stories were placed in different times, they all have one thing in common: the irony of each story. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, the situational irony is shown through the Grandmother’s name, and actions. June Starr is expected to be nice and sweet but turns out be a sassy, mean, and spoiled brat. Textual evidence from the story, “He reminds me of a pig” (O’Connor 12) also shows that June Starr is mean. The Grandmother is expected to keep them away from danger, but she ends up leading them right to the Misfit. Textual evidence from the story, “I wouldn’t take my children any direction with a …show more content…
When the angel arrived we thought of his wings shiny, clean, and very brightly colored, but it turned out to be his wings were grey like crow feathers and his wings were nasty looking. Textual evidence from the story says his wings were, “Huge Buzzard wings, half plucked”(Gabriel 1). The evidence shows that the angel’s wings were not what we though they would be. When the Angel arrived, he also arrived in a different way than we all would think, we think of angels appearing when we are near death, coming down from the skies to save us from the pain. But instead the angel washed up from a bad storm and then the people captured it. From textual evidence from the story, “Locked him up in hens” (Gabriel 1) tell us the people locked him