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The Great Gatsby Situational Irony Examples

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Throughout the book Robin Talley uses situational and dramatic irony. Situational irony is when what happens is not what was expected to happen. This happens in the book when the day before Gretchen and Toni go to college, Gretchen tells Toni that she’s going to a different school, NYU, instead of the school that Toni wanted her to ho to so that she would be by her and Harvard. Another example of situational irony is when Gretchen and Toni make plans to visit each other every weekend when they go to college but end up going months without seeing each other and days not texting or calling each other. Dramatic irony is when the reader know what's going to happen but the characters do not. For example when Toni and Gretchen go outside to the
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