Situational irony is defined as taking place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. Situational irony occurs when Edgar Derby, the schoolteacher from Indianapolis, "...was caught with a teapot he had taken from the catacombs. He was arrested for plundering. He was tried and shot. So it goes." It is ironic that Derby would be executed for an item so insignificant. He paid the ultimate price for a meaningless teapot.
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