Which statement best explains the situational irony that
occurs in the passage?
Read the passage from "The Storyteller."
The children moved listlessly towards the aunt's end of the
carriage. Evidently her reputation as a storyteller did not
rank high in their estimation.
In a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals
by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she
began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story
about a little girl who was good, and made friends with
every one on account of her goodness, and was finally
saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who
admired her moral character.
The aunt expects the children to laugh at the story, but
they do not
The children expect their aunt to tell a funny story, but
she does not
The children do not like the story
The children do not like the story, even though it is very
interesting
The aunt tells a story with a moral, but the children
ignore the lesson.
"Wouldn't they have saved her if she hadn't been good?"
demanded the bigger of the small girls. It was exactly the
question that the bachelor had wanted to ask.
"Well, yes," admitted the aunt lamely, "but I don't think
they would have run.avite so fast to her help if they had