O Henrys ironic endings
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William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry, is a renowned American author of many novels and short stories. He uses many different themes and styles in his writing to grab the reader's attention, the most famous of all, irony. Irony is the contrast between what is expected, and what actually is. Today our world seems to be built on irony; even careers such as Jerry Seinfield's and David Letterman's seem to be established solely on this enduring appeal. However, O. Henry was not the first author to incorporate this technique into his writing; irony, both a figure of speech and a way of perceiving the world, lay beneath Jane Austin's style, and gave Socrates his way of teaching. The specific form of irony O. Henry employs is irony of situation, the discrepancy between appearance of how events should work out and the reality. O...