Use Of Situational Irony In All Summer In A Day

Situational Irony: “ irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.”
In All Summer in a Day, the author creates situational irony. The situational irony in this short story is that Margot is deprived from seeing the sun. She was the only one, out of all her classmates, that had memory of the sun, therefore she had the greatest longing to see it again. She was also the only character that demonstrated faith that the sun would come out on that day. With this information in mind, we as readers, would assume that Margot would be the first one to see the sun. Instead, she is locked in a closet and does not get to see the sun at all, nor will
she see it until another 7 years pass. This unexpected ending made me feel furious at the classmates that locked her away, they knew that she wanted nothing more than to see the sun, and they took that away from her. The situational irony, made me have more compassion and sympathy for Margot. One wants the ending to be as expected, unfortunately, due to the irony, one is left feeling devastated for Margot at the change of events.