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The Ransom Of Red Thief Literary Analysis

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Reading both “The Necklace” and “The Ransom of Redchief” I’ve examined that the authors use the situational irony in both stories to change the reader's feelings about the plot and the characters. In “The Necklace”, Mathilde Loisel has a couple of situational ironies involving the necklace she borrowed from her friend. “The Ransom of Redchief” has many situational ironies that involve Johnny AKA Redchief.

Mathilde Loisel in the story “The Necklace” is very unfortunate after losing Mademe Forier’s necklace. One of the situational ironies in “The Necklace” is that she wants to be beautiful and rich, but she becomes the opposite. After paying the debt she owed for the necklace she lost to replace it and get a new one, she lost her money and

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