The Necklace, Desiree’s Baby and The Cask of Amontillado 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 …showed first 75 words of 2002 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2002 total…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.