In “The False Gems”, irony can be seen throughout the story. At the beginning of the story, Mr.Lantin believed that his wife’s jewelry was false.After his wife’s death, his life became difficult and he needed much money and decided to sell her jewelry to maintain his survival.The ironic thing was that he went to sell false jewelry in order to get money. He had always believed that the jewelry was false and not worth much, but he was told that the jewelry was real and he thought it was a mistake. What’s more,Ironically, he found the jewelry was real and was worth a lot of money. He was no longer sad because of his wife’s death but became happy.Money gave him much happiness. From this episode, we can see that Mr.Lantin didn’t resist the temptation