A situation immortalized in O. Henry's story The Gift of the Magi, in which a young couple is too poor to buy each other Christmas gifts. The man finally pawns his heirloom pocket watch to buy his wife a set of combs for her long, prized, beautiful hair. She, meantime, cuts her hair to sell to a wigmaker for money to buy her husband a watch-chain. The irony is twofold: the couple, having parted with their tangible valuables, is caused by the act to discover the richness of the intangible.
2007-05-02 03:16:05 · 5 answers · asked by j_emmans 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
*Alanis Morissettes song "Ironic".*
.Traffic Jam when you're already late
.No smoking sign on your cigarette break
.Win the lottery, die the next day
.Waiting your whole life to take a flight, the plane crashes.
.Rain on your wedding day
.A free ride when you already paid
.The good advice that you just didn't take
**All those things she mentions sum up everyday irony in life, that happens to everyone at some point in time.**
2007-05-02 03:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by Shut your mouth when u tlk to me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about the one where the president promises to bring Intergrity back to the office of the president, and in his second term is consumed by scandels?
The irony is similar to throwing rocks from within a glass house.
2007-05-02 04:14:21 · answer #2 · answered by geosworld 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A family is infected with the stomach flu. After spending six hours praying to the porceline god, the mother, dry heaving and dehydrated and exhausted, sits up soothing the baby who can't suck her thumb because her nose is plugged up. (the father is sleeping and recovering from the illness)
2007-05-02 03:25:29 · answer #3 · answered by KC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Winning the lottery when you know you're terminally ill and have 1 month to live.
2007-05-02 03:19:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
a little one from a magazine i read recently
she sells her vintage Minolos (sp) to buy him a Wii - he sells his flat screen to buy her a case to display her shoes........cute aint it?
I am still trying to see the Irony in Kc's example?????
2007-05-02 03:20:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋