"But he was wrong. They had taken a different turn a long way back."
In the short story "Hunters in the Snow" by Tobias Wolff, the end of the story is an example of situational irony. At the end of the story, Kenny belives that he is going to the hospital with Tub and Frank. However, they left the directions behind and took a wrong turn a while back. The reader knows that Kenny is going to die, but the characters do not. Tub and Frank are better friends with each other because they both have problems in their lives. They are both unhappy with their lifestyles. This shows when they choose to talk about it in a restaurant and leave Kenny bleeding alone. They are not trying to kill Kenny, they are just too caught up in their own lives.
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