“How Ironic”. The phrase that everyone living and breathing has said at least once. The rollercoaster of emotion one feels when expectations do not become reality, mostly the contrary of one's expectations is what becomes true. It is a twist that creates a deeper meaning, humor, and individuality and brings awareness of the unpredictable.
Irony is well involved in literature, to engage the reader by deceptively enhancing the narrative. The writer challenges conventional expectations from the reader with thought-provoking and in-depth storytelling. Literature uses several types of irony that can provide layers to a character, conflict, and the writing, such as verbal irony; where the words said by a character can be modified to despair the
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In “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story about abortion and how it explores the relationship between Jig and the American man while they have this decision. The StudyCorgi essay “Symbolism, Setting, Irony in Hemingway’s “” Hills Like White Elephants”, mentions that Hemingway uses irony throughout the story so the reader thinks about abortion, this can be seen as dramatic irony. The portrayal of a pregnancy unwanted by the American man but wanted by Jig. It is evident that Jig is not comfortable going through an abortion and the American man knows that she is not comfortable but goad ahead to say that he is not concerned with whatever she does as long as she is content. Ironically, the American man keeps pressuring Jig no matter how many times she has repeated that she does not want to, he keeps saying “It is a simple operation”. The essay shows that the irony creates tension between Jig and the American “almost as blazing as the heat of the sun in Spain”. The American, while encouraging Jig to do the abortion so they can live as how they were before the pregnancy; Jig finds herself overwhelmed and afraid to do so. Due to the tension, Jig makes the hard decision to fulfill expectations and at the same time find peace with