Life is kind of ironic. Even though we plan one thing life catches us completely off guard and changes the plans. In the three short stories many ironic instances are used by the authors to twist the plot. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner, “Because my Father Said he Was the Only Native American to See Jimi Hendrix Play “The Star Spangled Banner” at Woodstock” by Sherman Alexie, and “A very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Children’s Tale” by Gabriel Marquez we read about many instances of irony that twist and thicken the plot. Even though all the stories have different authors and were written in different time periods, each author uses irony in their stories to twist the plot. In the short story “A good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’ Conner the author uses irony in several ways. She uses it to twist the plot and keep the readers intrigued. To begin, if someone says “The grandmother didn’t want to go to …show more content…
The first example of irony in this story is the relationship between the father and his son. Most would expect a father son relationship to be semi-stable. When dad gets home the son might hug him and ask how his day went, but instead in Alexie’s story when the father got home the son would put in Jimi Hendrix and then his dad would pass out on the kitchen table and the son would sleep by his feet. Furthermore, another example of irony Alexie uses is the relationship between the mother and father. The audience would expect them to have a decent relationship due to the way they Alexie writes them at the beginning of the story, but throughout the story we read how corrupt their relationship actually was. In the story Alexie writes, “And ever though my mother didn’t want to be married to him anymore, and the wreck didn’t change that, she still saw him every day.” (Alexie