Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades expresses irony in many ways. The irony captivates the audience and make them read on. Puskin must be appreciated for setting up the story to point towards one outcome and then suddenly shifting gears towards another, outrageous and ironic, outcome. The Queen of Spades highlights the expression “expect the unexpected”. Pushkin also uses the thrill of gambling to keep his audience excited. He models the classical gambler (form their …showed first 75 words of 289 total…

…showed last 75 words of 289 total…the outcome, that he forgot what to do to actually reach it. The gambler automatically though he was going to win without any complications. The Queen of Spades is an enjoyable comedy for all of its irony. The fantastic jolt at the end of the story makes the audience’s blood run and their minds think over the entire story again. A good book is not predictable: This makes The Queen of Spades a masterpiece.