"Zoe came up, slow, from behind and gave him a shove. His arms slipped forward, off the railing, out over the street."
This excerpt from the short story "You're Ugly Too" by Lorrie Moore is an example of situational irony. It is because Zoe is at a party with her boyfriend. She starts to push him off a balcony as a joke to flirt with him. However, he does not take this as a joke. Instead, he becomes upset and somewhat scared of her. When she sees this, all she thinks of is how she looks. It does not register to her that her boyfriend is weirded out by her because he believes that she tried to kill him. This also adds to the indirect characterization that Zoe is a very weird, awkward person.
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