A Pair of Silk Stockings Literary Devices

Explanation and Analysis—Bargain Stockings:

Situational irony highlights a turning point in "A Pair of Silk Stockings." The following passage describes Mrs. Sommers as she first discovers the discounted stockings that launch her spending spree:

She looked down to see that her hand lay upon a pile of silk stockings. A placard near by announced that they had been reduced in price from two dollars and fifty cents to one dollar and ninety-eight cents; and a young girl who stood behind the counter asked her if she wished to examine their line of silk hosiery. She smiled, just as if she had been asked to inspect a tiara of diamonds with the ultimate view of purchasing it.

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A Pair of Silk Stockings: Situational Irony 1 key example