Many stories have great endings, but the stories that lead you to believe and think that the character is a certain way, and then all of a sudden the reader is approached with a surprise towards the end of the story, fascinates the story with suspense and irony. In the stories, "The Necklace" and "Desiree's Baby" as well as, "Cask of Amontillado" have their own unique ways of twisting the charters feelings and position. Each story is surrounded with ironic events, and the irony of the each story also takes the readers by surprise, and opens new doors wondering why each character changed and what other aspects related to that change.

In the story "The Necklace", Madame Mathilde was charming and beautiful. A woman who lived a simple life, but a life that was not to her higher expectations and satisfaction. "She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, wedded by any rich and distinguished man; and she let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction" (38). Even though she lived a simply life, she wanted more than she can afford. Madame Mathilde desired materialistic and superficial things i

As Cynthia Wolff stated, " At the most superficial level in "Desiree's Baby" there are distinctions that attend colorations, differences of pigment that carry definitions of social caste and even more damning implications about the "value" of one's identity"(37). This is shown as Armand was against his own blood, his son, and did not want anything to do with his wife or baby anymore, yet later discovers his own true identity. Cynthia also demonstrates this as she says, "Thus the dilemma of "color" must ultimately be construed emblematically, with the ironic and unstated fact that human situations can never be as clear as "black and white" (38). This ultimately kept Armand, Desiree, and the baby a part as a loving and happy family it once was.

Each story, "The Necklace", "Desiree's Baby", and "The Cask of Amontillado" each story had great ironic events that had some strong and meaningful reasons for each ironic surprise, and mystery. The irony in "The Necklace" was surprising at the end when Madame Loisel finds out that the necklace was not worth much as she expected it to be. The irony in "Desiree's Baby" came to much surprise to Desiree and Armando as they both discovered at one point of the story that they were both of Negro blood and the irony in, "The Cask of Amontillado" was the most ironic story of all. From the beginning of the story to the ending of the story, Montresors kept the reader in suspense until the end, when he finally surprises his ironic behavior to the reader and completes his revenge without turning back.

The reader is lead to believe that the story's central conflict is based on Madame Loisel's social situation and her desire to become a member of a higher class. If fact, however, that conflict- the disparity between appearances and reality. At the Ministry ball, Madame Loisel's success is direct result of her appearance of wealth and high social standing, whereas, in reality, she is relatively poor. (175)

In the story "Desiree's Baby" is a story about denial and blind love. Desiree was an adopted child that was taken in by Madame Valmonde. Desiree was raised well by her adopted parents. "For the girl grew to be beautiful and gentle, affectionate and sincere, -the idol of Valmonde"(59). She was later married to Armand Aubigny who knew Desiree long time ago when his father brought him home at the age of eight from Paris when his mother died. "The passion that awoke in him that day, when he saw her at the gate, swept along like an avalanche, or like a prairie fire, or like anything that drives headlong over all obstacles" (59). They were truly in love with each other and later Desiree bared a child for Armand, a baby boy! "Oh, Armand is the proudest father in the parish, I believe, chiefly because it is a boy, to bear his name; though he says not, -that he would have loved a girl as well" (61). The baby changed their life and brought much happiness to Armand and Desiree. As the baby got much older, Armand kept observing the baby with a strange feeling inside and the more he looked deep with the skin color, the more Armand

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