Irony in The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe and “A Good Man is Hardto Find by Mary Flannery O Connor

The main aim of this paper is to bring out the irony in the two selected stories of Edgar AllanPoe “ The Cask of Amontillado” and Mary Flannery O’Conner “A Good Man is Hard to find“. Irony inany story depends on the author’s tone and attitude toward his specific situation . In this paper,situational, dramatic and verbal ironies ”are discussed. Situational irony depends upon a discrepancybetween how characters see a situation and the true nature of the situation. While in the dramatic ironyreaders knows something which characters in the story do not. The Third type is verbal irony it canoccur through dialogue, when the character says something but he means another thing.Also thedifference between sarcasm and irony will be explained.